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Theory and Methods

An Improved Estimator of the Density Function at the Boundary

S. Zhang Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775, USA
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R. J. Karunamuni Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G1, Canada
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M. C. Jones Department of Statistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
Pages 1231-1240 | Received 01 Jul 1997, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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