Excess Mass Estimates and Tests for Multimodality

DOI10.2307/2290406zbMath0733.62040MaRDI QIDQ3359582

Günther Sawitzki, D. W. Müller

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

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62H30: Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

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