Cross-validation and the estimation of probability distributions with categorical data

DOI10.1080/10485250600569002zbMath1087.62051OpenAlexW2121249652MaRDI QIDQ5291821

Jeffrey S. Racine, Desheng Ouyang, Q. Li

Publication date: 22 May 2006

Published in: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10485250600569002

zbMATH Keywords

cross-validationmortalitynonparametric smoothingdiscrete variableprobability estimationnumber of transplants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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