Solution

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A kernel for density estimation is a bounded nonnegative integrable function with . Its bandwidth- rescaling is , and the kernel density estimator is
Fix and put . Since vanishes outside ,
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and variance additivity for independent random variables give
Nonnegativity also gives . Taking the better estimate at each and applying Tonelli theorem proves
For nonnegative and , . Taking yields
For , the Holder inequality with conjugate exponents and gives
If is uniform on and independent of , then has probability density function . Since
the last integral is at most . Substitution proves the second displayed bound. The case is the first bound integrated using and follows directly.

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