*Proceeding Paper* **Bootstrap Selector for the Smoothing Parameter of Beran's Estimator †**

**Rebeca Peláez Suárez 1,\*, Ricardo Cao Abad <sup>2</sup> and Juan M. Vilar Fernández <sup>2</sup>**

	- **\*** Correspondence: rebeca.pelaez@udc.es

**Abstract:** This work proposes a resampling technique to approximate the smoothing parameter of Beran's estimator. It is based on resampling by the smoothed bootstrap and minimising the bootstrap approximation of the mean integrated squared error to find the bootstrap bandwidth. The behaviour of this method has been tested by simulation on several models. Bootstrap confidence intervals are also addressed in this research and their performance is analysed in the simulation study.

**Keywords:** Beran's estimator; survival analysis; bootstrap; bandwidth selector; confidence intervals
