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Variable (bandwidth) kernel density estimation (Abramson (1982,Ann. Statist.,10, 1217–1223)) and a kernel estimator with varying locations (Samiuddin and El-Sayyad (1990,Biometrika,77, 865–874)) are complementary ideas which essentially both afford bias of orderh 4 as the overall smoothing parameterh → 0, sufficient differentiability of the density permitting. These ideas are put in a more general framework in this paper. This enables us to describe a variety of ways in which scale and location variation may be extended and/or combined to good theoretical effect. This particularly includes extending the basic ideas to provide new kernel estimators with bias of orderh 6. Technical difficulties associated with potentially overly large variations are fully accounted for in our theory.
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Jones, M.C., McKay, I.J. & Hu, T.C. Variable location and scale kernel density estimation. Ann Inst Stat Math 46, 521–535 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00773515
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00773515