Density estimation and bump-hunting by the penalized likelihood method exemplified by scattering and meteorite data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 75, Issue 369, 1980, Pages 42-56

  Good, I J ^a   Gaskins, R A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bump evaluation; Chondrites; Clustering by bump hunting; High energy scattering data; Nonparametric density estimation; Penalized likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950634092     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1980.10477419     Document Type: Article

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