Estimating and depicting the structure of a distribution of random functions

Biometrika

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 145-158

  Hall, Peter ^a   Heckman, Nancy E ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Cluster analysis; Functional data analysis; Gaussian process; Generalised Fourier expansion; Karhunen Lo ve expansion; Kernel methods; Line of steepest ascent; Mode; Nonparametric density estimation; Tree diagram

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142143806     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/89.1.145     Document Type: Article

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