Methods for tracking support boundaries with corners

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1870-1893

  Cheng, Ming Yen ^a,b   Hall, Peter ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Boundary; Corner; Curvature; Frontier; Kernel method; Local linear; Nonparametric curve estimation; Support

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746915722     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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