A comparison of estimators of the geographical relative risk function

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1471-1485

  Fernando, W T P S ^a   Ganesalingam, S ^a   Hazelton, M L ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

bandwidth; cross validation; density ratio; kernel smoothing; local linear; plug in; spatial smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893017088     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2012.748055     Document Type: Article

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