Orthogonal polynomial density estimates: Alternative representation and degree selection

International Journal of Computational and Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-24

  Provost, Serge B ^a   Jiang, Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density approximation; Kernel density estimation; Moment based methodologies; Orthogonal polynomials

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DENSITY APPROXIMATIONS; DENSITY ESTIMATES; DENSITY ESTIMATION; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; KERNEL REPRESENTATION; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MOMENT-BASED METHODOLOGIES; MOMENT-MATCHING; ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIAL; STOPPING CRITERIA; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650280058     PISSN: 20103905     EISSN: 20103913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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