Bandwidth selection in nonparametric kernel testing

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 484, 2008, Pages 1584-1594

  Gao, Jiti ^a   Gijbels, Iréne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Choice of bandwidth parameter; Edgeworth expansion; Nonparametric kernel testing; Power function; Size function

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949154814     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000968     Document Type: Article

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