Mode testing via higher-order density estimation

DOI10.1007/S00180-010-0183-7MaRDI QIDQ650691zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael C. Minnotte

Publication date 26 November 2011

Published in Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-010-0183-7

zbMATH Keywords

multimodalityvariable bandwidthbump huntingcritical bandwidth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Density estimation (62G07)

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• KernSmooth
• R

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