Unimodal kernel density estimation by data sharpening

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-98

  Hall, Peter ^a   Kang, Kee Hoon ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Data sharpening; Heavy tailed distributions; Kernel methods; Mean squared error; Nonparametric density estimation; Order constraint; Tilting methods; Unimodal density

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244369948     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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