Mode testing in difficult cases

DOI10.1214/AOS/1017938927MaRDI QIDQ1568273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ming-Yen Cheng, Peter Hall

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

bootstrapsmoothingbandwidthcalibrationturning pointcurve estimationshoulderlocal maximumlevel accuracy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Attributing a probability to the shape of a probability density
• On the calibration of Silverman's test for multimodality
• Multivariate mode hunting: Data analytic tools with measures of significance
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