A bandwidth selection for kernel density estimation of functions of random variables

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-62

  Mugdadi, A R ^a   Ahmad, Ibrahim A ^b  

^a Southern Illinois University at Carbondale   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Density estimation; Function of random variables; Kernel contrast

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CURVE FITTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DENSITY ESTIMATION; FUNCTION OF RANDOM VARIABLES; KERNEL CONTRAST;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 4544284119     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2003.10.013     Document Type: Article

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