Self-consistent density estimation

Stata Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-258

  Luedicke, Joerg ^a,b   Bernacchia, Alberto ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Kernel density; Nonparametric statistics; Scdensity; Self consistent density estimator; st0334

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001060901     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: 15368734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1401400201     Document Type: Article

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