Nonparametric testing of the existence of modes

DOI10.1214/aos/1031594735zbMath0936.62056OpenAlexW2125553748WikidataQ56455246 ScholiaQ56455246MaRDI QIDQ1372850

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

mode estimationkernel density estimationmultimodalitybump 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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