Bias reduction and elimination with kernel estimators

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 2001, Pages 1869-1888

  Sain, Stephan R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Cross validation; Nonparametric estimation; Variable bandwidth

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244433688     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100105702     Document Type: Article

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