Integrated squared error estimation of normal mixtures

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 517-526

  Besbeas, Panagiotis ^a   Morgan, Byron J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Integrated squared error; Kernel density estimation; Normal mixtures; Parseval's theorem; Simulated annealing; Smoothed cross validation selector

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS;

KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242286590     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00251-7     Document Type: Article

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