Attributing a probability to the shape of a probability density

DOI10.1214/009053604000000607zbMath1057.62028arXivmath/0503675OpenAlexW2043826266MaRDI QIDQ1766129

Hong Ooi, Hall, Peter

Publication date: 28 February 2005

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503675

zbMATH Keywords

likelihoodbootstrapkernel methodsbumpsubsamplingmodenonparametric curve estimationdata sharpeningbandwidth choiceconstrained inferenceexcess mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

Uses Software

• alr3
• ftnonpar
• SiZer

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