A mixture- based framework for nonparametric density estimation

• Main Author: Chew-Seng, Chee
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand: University of Auckland 2012
• Subjects: QA 278.8 .C4 2011; Chew-Seng, Chee; Tesis University of Auckland 2011; Nonparametric statistics > Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1621

The primary goal of this thesis is to provide a mixture-based framework for nonparametric density estimation. This framework advocates the use of a mixture model with a nonparametric mixing distribution to approximate the distribution of the data. The implementation of a mixture-based nonparametric...