The triweight kernel is a compactly supported symmetric probability density with variance . Its value and first two derivatives vanish at the support endpoints. Its integrated squared second derivative is , and it minimizes that curvature among twice continuously differentiable densities with zero mean and the same variance, by the triweight density minimizes integrated squared curvature inequality.
Let be the triweight kernel and h a twice continuously differentiable density with matching zero mean and variance. Put and . Two integrations by parts over its support give , using the zero mass and second moment of e. Therefore . The endpoint terms matter because the third derivative jumps there.
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