Approximations to distributions of statistics used for testing hypotheses about the number of modes of a population

DOI10.1016/S0378-3758(96)00072-9zbMath0936.62043MaRDI QIDQ1125975

Andrew T. A. Wood, Hall, Peter

Publication date: 18 May 2000

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapMonte CarlobandwidthGaussian processkernelmode

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Gaussian processes (60G15) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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