Some asymptotics for multimodality tests based on kernel density estimates

DOI10.1007/BF01194493zbMath0745.62048OpenAlexW1967683808MaRDI QIDQ1187104

Enno Mammen, James Stephen Marron, Nicholas I. Fisher

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Probability Theory and Related Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01194493

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergencekernel density estimatorbootstrap critical valuesasymptotics for multimodality testscritically smoothed bandwidthexpected number of modesmodality of a probability density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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