Re: kernel esimation and comparison

2000-02-14 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 887tik$p1s$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you use something like the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic directly on the data? It seems that doing the density estimation first may just complicate the testing. This is correct, and this is truly non-parametric, as long

kernel esimation and comparison

2000-02-13 Thread cgleslie
Hi, a quick question: I am reading Silverman (Density Estimation, 1987), and hoping to apply it to some work I am doing. Let's say that I have a series of data, recurrent over several years. For each year, I estimate a kernel density function, and plot the results. Given the density functions

Re: kernel esimation and comparison

2000-02-13 Thread kingjupiter
Why don't you use something like the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic directly on the data? It seems that doing the density estimation first may just complicate the testing. In article 886ii3$ser$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a quick question: I am reading Silverman (Density