The choice of the number of bins for the M statistic

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3640-3649

  White, Laura Forsberg ^a   Bonetti, Marco ^b   Pagano, Marcello ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Univerisita' Bocconi ^*  (Italy)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI SQUARE STATISTICS; CONTINUOUS DATUM; DISCRETIZATION; HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS; INTERPOINT DISTANCES; LARGE CLUSTERS; OPTIMAL NUMBERS; PUBLIC HEALTHS; QUADRATIC FORMS; SIMULATED DATUM; SMALL CLUSTERS; SPATIAL ANOMALIES; SPATIAL DATUM; SPATIAL LOCATIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; VARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRIXES;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; HEALTH CARE; NUMBER THEORY; STATISTICS;

BINS;

EID: 67349209840     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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