Smoothing methodology with applications to nonparametric statistics

The work in this thesis is based on kernel smoothing techniques with applications to nonparametric statistical methods and especially kernel density estimation and nonparametric regression. We examine a bootstrap iterative method of choosing the smoothing parameter, in univariate kernel density esti...

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Main Author: Vrahimis, Andreas
Other Authors: Foster, Peter ; Pan, Jianxin
Published: University of Manchester 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528527