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Strongly Consistent of Kullback-Leibler Divergence Estimator and Tests for Model Selection Based on a Bias Reduced Kernel Density Estimator

Methodology 2018-05-21 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study the strong consistency of a bias reduced kernel density estimator and derive a strongly con- sistent Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) estimator. As application, we formulate a goodness-of-fit test and an asymptotically standard normal test for model selection. The Monte Carlo simulation show the effectiveness of the proposed estimation methods and statistical tests.

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@article{arxiv.1805.07088,
  title  = {Strongly Consistent of Kullback-Leibler Divergence Estimator and Tests for Model Selection Based on a Bias Reduced Kernel Density Estimator},
  author = {Papa Ngom and Freedath Djibril Moussa and Jean de Dieu Nkurunziza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07088},
  year   = {2018}
}

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27 pages, 5 figures