Locally parametric nonparametric density estimation
局部参数化的非参数密度估计
This paper develops a nonparametric density estimator with parametric overtones. Suppose $f(x, \theta)$ is some family of densities, indexed by a vector of parameters $\theta$. We define a local kernel-smoothed likelihood function which, for each x, can be used to estimate the best local parametric approximant to the true density. This leads to a new density estimator of the form $f(x, \hat{\theta}(x))$, thus inserting the best local parameter estimate for each new value of…