Skewing and Generalized Jackknifing in Kernel Density Estimation
Abstract Kernel methods are very popular in nonparametric density estimation. In this article we suggest a simple estimator which reduces the bias to the fourth power of the bandwidth, while the variance of the estimator increases only by at most a moderate constant factor. Our proposal turns out to be a fourth order kernel estimator and may be regarded as a new version of the generalized jackknifing approach (Schucany W. R., Sommers, J. P. (1977). Improvement of Kernal type estimators. Journal of the American Statistical Association 72:420–423.) applied to kernel density estimation.