bandwidth.nrd {MASS}

R Documentation

Bandwidth for density() via Normal Reference Distribution

Description

A well-supported rule-of-thumb for choosing the bandwidth of a Gaussian kernel density estimator.

Usage

bandwidth.nrd(x)

Arguments

x	A data vector.

Value

A bandwidth on a scale suitable for the width argument of density.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Springer, equation (5.5) on page 130.

Examples

Run examples

# The function is currently defined as
function(x)
{
    r <- quantile(x, c(0.25, 0.75))
    h <- (r[2] - r[1])/1.34
    4 * 1.06 * min(sqrt(var(x)), h) * length(x)^(-1/5)
}

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