Nonparametric testing of the existence of modes

DOI10.1214/AOS/1031594735MaRDI QIDQ1372850zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael C. Minnotte

Publication date 18 May 2000

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1031594735

zbMATH Keywords

kernel density estimationmultimodalitymode estimationbump hunting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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• Scale space view of curve estimation.
• Bandwidth-based nonparametric inference
• Assessing extrema of empirical principal component functions
• Counting bumps
• Testing for multimodality
• Automatic topography of high-dimensional data sets by non-parametric density peak clustering
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• Local extremes, runs, strings and multiresolution. (With discussion)
• A practical implementation of weighted kernel density estimation for handling shape constraints
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• An advancement in clustering via nonparametric density estimation

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