Rolling-ball method for estimating the boundary of the support of a point-process intensity

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 959-971

  Hall, Peter ^a   Park, Byeong U ^a,b   Turlach, Berwin A ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Confidence band; Curvature; Envelope; Frontier; Productivity analysis; Rotation invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036847156     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0246-0203(02)01132-9     Document Type: Article

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