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Nonparametric estimation is a statistical method that allows the functional form of a fit to data to be obtained in the absence of any guidance or constraints from theory. As a result, the procedures of nonparametric estimation have no meaningful associated parameters.

The simplified mechanism of this Demonstration divides the "actual" data range into uniform bins and then estimates the frequencies within each bin. These frequencies are used as weights to generate pseudorandom values within the same bin arrangement (visible in the upper histograms). The lower-left graph displays the empirical CDFs for the two datasets. Finally, in the lower-right graph, Mathematica's built-in function KernelMixtureDistribution estimates and compares the two PDF kernel estimations (green and red lines) against the theoretical PDF (dashed black line).