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Methods for assessing the variability of an estimated contour of a density are discussed. A new method called the coverage plot is proposed. Techniques including sectioning and bootstrap techniques are compared for a particular problem which arises in Monte Carlo simulation approaches to estimating the spatial distribution of risk in the operation of weapons firing ranges. It is found that, for computational reasons, the sectioning procedure outperforms the bootstrap for this problem. The roles of bias and sample size are also seen in the examples shown.
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Lin, XG., Pope, A. Coverage plots for assessing the variability of estimated contours of a density. Stat Comput 6, 325–336 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143553
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