Mode testing in difficult cases

DOI10.1214/AOS/1017938927zbMath0957.62028OpenAlexW2022686610MaRDI QIDQ1568273

Ming-Yen Cheng

Publication date: 29 March 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1017938927

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapsmoothingbandwidthturning pointcalibrationcurve estimationshoulderlocal maximumlevel accuracy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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