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On parametric density estimators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

C. R. Heathcote*
Affiliation:
The Australian National University, Canberra

Extract

There is an extensive literature on estimating a probability density (or some other appropriate curve) f using statistics of the form Here X1, X2, · · ·, Xn is a sample from the population, the weight function w is constrained by suitable regularity conditions, and the sequence {bn} of band-widths satisfies bn → 0, nbn → ∞ as n → ∞. Rosenblatt (1971) presents details of this method of estimation and provides an extensive list of references.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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