Some problems on the estimation of unimodal densities

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-45

  Bickel, Peter J ^a   Fan, Jianqing ^a  

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Author keywords

Asymptotic distributions; MLE; Modes; Plug in methods; Pregrouping methods; Unimodal densities

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EID: 21344472936     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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