Plug-in estimation of general level sets

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-19

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   González Manteiga, Wenceslao ^b   Rodríguez Casal, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boundary estimation; Hausdorff metric; Level sets; Spherical data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645036228     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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