A locally adaptive transformation method of boundary correction in kernel density estimation

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2936-2960

  Karunamuni, R J ^a   Alberts, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Kernel estimation; Mean squared error; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646688926     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.12.014     Document Type: Article

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