the generic kernel has compact support [e.g., uniform on (−1,1), triangular, quadratic or biweight], the esti-mator depends only on those pairs whose xi are in the interval (x0 −h,x0 +h). In this formulation the band-width (or smoothing parameter) is a scale parameter. When the kernel is a p.d.f. such as the standard nor-mal, h is the ...