A comparison of higher-order bias kernel density estimators

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 1063-1073

  Jones, M C ^a   Signorini, D F ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Higher order kernel; Multiplicative bias correction; Smoothing; Transformation; Variable bandwidth; Variable location

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744458193     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474062     Document Type: Article

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