Gaussian kernels for density estimation with compositional data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 702-711

  Chacon J E ^a   Mateu Figueras, G ^b   Martin Fernandez J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Isometric log ratio; Normal distribution; Simplex

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH MATRIX; COMPOSITIONAL DATA; DENSITY ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; GENERAL CLASS; ISOMETRIC LOG-RATIO; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; PLUG-INS; REAL EXAMPLE; SIMPLEX; SMOOTHING PARAMETER;

BANDWIDTH; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79955467690     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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