Minimax kernels for density estimation with biased data

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 451-467

  Wu, Colin O ^a   Mao, Andrew Q ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Kernel density estimate; Minimax kernel; Minimax mean squared error; Selection biased data; Weighted distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039151426     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00050848     Document Type: Article

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