Scan clustering: A false discovery approach

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1441-1469

  Perone Pacifico, M ^a,b   Genovese, C ^a   Verdinelli, I ^a,b   Wasserman, L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; False discovery proportion; Kernel density estimators; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248563007     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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