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Confidence bounds for PDF

I build confidence bounds for estimating PDF of the empirical sample using bootstrapping: ...
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Proving the convergence of KDE algorithms when the samples are non-i.i.d

I am currently working on convergence proof for a new method for non-parametric importance sampling, and I need some help... My method uses an MCMC algorithm to generate a set of dependent $M$ ...
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Averaged continuous Kernel Density Estimates in lieu of a discrete Kernel Density Estimate in Monte Carlo Proceedure

I am thinking of using this code in a Monte Carlo routine to generate Kernel Density Estimates for subsequent use in a Naive Bayes Classifier (see this earlier post). The author of the code states ...
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Bandwidth selection for smooth reliability diagram

Following up on "How to evaluate quality of probability estimator for Bernoulli experiments?", I want to visualize the quality of an estimator for probability forecasting using a Reliability Diagram. ...
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Efficent global minimum search of costly to evaluate low dimensional error function

Trying to minimize the error from a probabilistic regression model which is composed of hierarchical KDE estimated PDFs. The top level is the result of 2-4 separate meta-PDFs from different data ...
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Sheather-Jones bandwidth algorithm implementation in java?

The Sheather-Jones method for selecting an appropriate bandwidth for kernel density estimation generally produces better results than simpler methods such as Silverman's rule of thumb and Scott's ...