density() vs. KernSmooth::bkde
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Mario Valle wrote:
Any advice when to use denstity() and when the KernSmooth package bkde() to smooth a histogram? No specific problem to use either one, but I'm curious why there are two so similar implementations.
They are fundamentally different. density() uses FFT: bkde() does not and is more flexible as a result Both use binning. There are only a limited number of ways to implement something as simple as KDE, and most of them have appeared in R/S-PLUS. Remember that KernSmooth was written for S-PLUS and predates R (at least in anything like its current form).
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