Excess Mass Estimates and Tests for Multimodality

DOI10.2307/2290406zbMath0733.62040OpenAlexW4253352720MaRDI QIDQ3359582

D. W. Müller, Günther Sawitzki

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2290406

zbMATH Keywords

modalitycluster analysisbump huntingnumber of modestests for multimodalityexcess mass functionalmultiples of uniform distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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