GLOBAL MINIMA OF LEAST SQUARES CROSS VALIDATION FOR A SYMMETRIC POLYNOMIAL KEREL WITH FINITE SUPPORT

The least squares cross validated bandwidth is the mini-mizer of the corss validation function for choosing the smooth parame-ter of a kernel density estimator. It is a completely automatic method but it requires inordinate amounts of computational time. We present a convenient formula for calculation of the cross validation function when the kernel function is a symmetric polynomial with finite sup-port. Also we suggest an algorithm for finding global minima of the crass validation function.