Excess Mass Estimates and Tests for Multimodality

DOI10.2307/2290406zbMath0733.62040OpenAlexW4253352720MaRDI QIDQ3359582

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2290406

zbMATH Keywords

modality cluster analysis bump hunting number of modes tests for multimodality excess mass functional multiples of uniform distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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