Reducing variance in nonparametric surface estimation

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 375-397

  Cheng, Ming Yen ^a,b   Hall, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Boundary effect; Kernel method; Nonparametric density estimation; Nonparametric regression; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043158970     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-259X(02)00032-5     Document Type: Article

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