Symmetric maximum kernel likelihood estimation

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-206

  Jaki, Thomas ^a   West, R Webster ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Binning; Kernel density estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Symmetric density

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650287042     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903232664     Document Type: Article

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