Histogram Bin Based Bandwidth Selection
DESCRIPTION:
Uses a histogram density estimate of bin width to select the bandwidth of a
Gaussian kernel density estimator.
USAGE:
bandwidth.hb(x, freq)
REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:
- x
-
a numeric vector
OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:
- freq
-
Vector the same length as
x
, giving frequencies
(positive integers).
If supplied, equivalent to replacing
x
with
rep(x, freq)
.
VALUE:
a bandwidth
REFERENCE:
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1997)
Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS,
Second Edition.
Springer.
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