You might try: http://www.stanford.edu/~kasparr/software/silverman.r
But take a look at the referenced paper by Silverman first. You could also try the CRAN package ftnonpar by Kovac and Davies. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/my.html Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Patrick Wang wrote: > Hi, All: > > How can I use the density function to find the minimum of the bandwidth > make the density function one mode, 2 mode, 3 mode etc. usually the > larger the bandwidth, the fewer mode of the density. less bumpy. > > It will be impossible to try all possible bandwidths to then plot the pdf > to see how many modes it has. Is there an automatic way to do this Like > for loop 1000, try bandwidth from (0, 1). is there a function to get > how many modes from the density function? the Mode function in R doesnot > seem to serve this purpose. > > > Thanks > pat > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
