Paper #109

Title:

Interactive local bandwidth choice

Authors:

J. S. Marron and Frederic Udina

Date:

February 1995

Abstract:

A tool for user choice of the local bandwidth function for a kernel density estimate is developed using KDE, a graphical object-oriented package for interactive kernel density estimation written in LISP-STAT. The bandwidth function is a cubic spline, whose knots are manipulated by the user in one window, while the resulting estimate appears in another window. A real data illustration of this method raises concerns, because an extremely large family of estimates is available.

Area of Research:

Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Published in:

Statistics and Computing, 9, (1999), pp. 101-110

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