• DocumentCode
    924259
  • Title

    Sequential nonparametric density estimation

  • Author

    Davies, H.I. ; Wegman, Edward J.

  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1975
  • fDate
    11/1/1975 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    619
  • Lastpage
    628
  • Abstract
    Using kernel estimates of the Parzen type, a naive sequential nonparametric density estimation procedure is developed. The asymptotic distribution structure of the stopping variable is examined. The stopping variable is shown to have finite moments of ail order and is shown to be dosed. The stopping variable N depends on some preassigned error \\varepsilon , and it is shown that N diverges strongly to \\infty as \\varepsilon converges to zero. Finally, with \\hat{f}_n(x) being a kernel-type estimator, it is shown that \\hat{f}_N(X) converges to f(x) , the true density at x , with probability one as \\varepsilon converges to zero.
  • Keywords
    Nonparametric estimation; Probability functions; Sequential estimation; Convergence; Helium; Kernel; Mathematics; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; Random variables; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1975.1055468
  • Filename
    1055468