Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 65 - 79
(November 2010)
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FOURTH-ORDER KERNEL METHOD USING LINE TRANSECT SAMPLING
Omar M. Eidous and Abedel-Qader Al-Masri
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is valid or
not. The performances of the proposed estimators are studied and compared with
some existing estimators by simulation technique. As the results demonstrated,
the fourth-order kernel method has overall better performance than the
traditional kernel method, and in many cases is much more effective.