Some improvements on a boundary corrected kernel density estimator

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 499-507

  Karunamuni, R J ^a   Zhang, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Kernel density estimation; Mean squared error; Reflection; Transformation boundary effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 40449102200     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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