Data-driven choice of the smoothing parametrization for kernel density estimators

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-265

  Chacón, José E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kernel density estimation; Relative efficiency; Smoothing parametrization

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049131897     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10016     Document Type: Article

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