Calibrating the Excess Mass and Dip Tests of Modality

DOI10.1111/1467-9868.00141zbMath0909.62046OpenAlexW2081684867MaRDI QIDQ4214263

Ming-Yen Cheng

Publication date: 8 April 1999

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/20060927121132351450/1/calibrating.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapMonte Carlo simulationcalibrationdensity estimationbumpbimodal distributionunimodal distributionnumerical performancebandwidth testmode testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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