Strong uniform consistency of nonparametric estimation of the censored conditional mode function

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 797-806

  Ould Saïd, Elias ^a   Cai, Zongwu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Conditional mode function; Conditional probability density; Kernel estimator; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744553092     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250500038561     Document Type: Article

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