Mode testing via higher-order density estimation

DOI10.1007/S00180-010-0183-7zbMATH Open1416.62200OpenAlexW1996277242MaRDI QIDQ650691FDOQ650691

Authors: Michael C. Minnotte 

Publication date: 26 November 2011

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-010-0183-7

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zbMATH Keywords

multimodalityvariable bandwidthbump huntingcritical bandwidth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Density estimation (62G07)

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Uses Software

• R
• KernSmooth

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