Correction of density estimators that are not densities

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 415-427

  Glad, Ingrid K ^a   Hjort, Nils Lid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bona fide densities; Density estimation; Mean integrated squared error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037502974     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00339     Document Type: Article

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