On the optimal amount of smoothing in penalised spline regression

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 936-940

  Wand, M P ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic approximation; Automatic smoothing parameter selection; Nonparametric regression; Quick and simple smoothing parameter selection; Regression spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000477149     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.4.936     Document Type: Article

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