Ladefoged, P. (1971). Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged

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It is well known that the number of modes of a kernel density estimator is monotone nonincreasing in the bandwidth if the kernel is a Gaussian density. There is numerical evidence of nonmonotonicity in the case of some non-Gaussian kernels, but little additional information is available. The present paper provides theoretical and numerical descriptions of the extent to which the number of modes...

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The year 2000 U. S. Census has been inundated by political and legal controversy. This talk will survey the current plans for Census 2000 from my perspective as a statistician. From this perspective the viability and desirability of these plans will be discussed. Some relevant evidence in this regard will be cited from the 1990 census and from the 1998 Dress Rehearsal census.