Exact mean integrated squared error of a kernel density estimator

ID: exact-mean-integrated-squared-error-of-a-kernel-density-estimator

For independent observations with common density f, the kernel density estimator has mean . Its pointwise variance is . Integrate the variance and add integrated squared bias to get the displayed exact mean integrated squared error, assuming the integrals are finite. Since , this also separates the smoothing bias from the stochastic variance.

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