Asymptotics and optimal bandwidth selection for highest density region estimation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1767-1792

  Samworth, R J ^a   Wand, M P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Density contour; Density level set; Kernel density estimator; Plug in bandwidth selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951486042     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS766     Document Type: Article

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