Bootstrap selection of the smoothing parameter in nonparametric hazard rate estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 435, 1996, Pages 1130-1140

  Gonzalez Manteiga W ^a   Cao, R ^b   Marron, J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Binning; Censored data; Mean integrated squared error; Warping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042123140     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476983     Document Type: Article

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