A universally acceptable smoothing factor for kernel density estimates

DOI10.1214/aos/1032181164zbMath0867.62024MaRDI QIDQ1354450

Gábor Lugosi, Luc P. Devroye

Publication date: 5 May 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1032181164

zbMATH Keywords

convergence; kernel; asymptotic optimality; kernel density estimates; smoothing factor; minimum distance estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G07: Density estimation

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

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