Unimodal density estimation using kernel methods

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 965-990

  Hall, Peter ^a   Huang, Li Shan ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Biased bootstrap; Integrated squared error; Mode; Nonparametric density estimation; Order restricted inference; Power divergence; Tilting; Weighted bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036822874     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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