Densities, spectral densities and modality

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1093-1136

  Laurie Davies, P ^a   Kovac, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Density estimation; Modality; Spectral densities; Strings; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944438248     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000364     Document Type: Article

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