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Density estimation and related methods provide a powerful set of tools for visualization of data-based distributions in one, two, and higher dimensions. This chapter examines a variety of such estimators, as well as the various issues related to their theoretical quality and practical application.
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Minnotte, M., Sain, S., Scott, D. (2008). Multivariate Visualization by Density Estimation. In: Handbook of Data Visualization. Springer Handbooks Comp.Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33037-0_16
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