On Qualitative Smoothness of Kernel Density Estimates1

DOI10.1080/02331889508802494zbMath0811.62046MaRDI QIDQ4763489

Enno Mammen

Publication date: 10 April 1995

Published in: Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02331889508802494

zbMATH Keywords

modality; asymptotic expansions; smoothness; inflection points; kernel density estimates; expected number of local extremes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G07: Density estimation

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

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