Estimating smooth monotone functions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 365-375

  Ramsay, J O ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convex functions; Density estimation; Generalized additive model; Linear differential equation; Monotonicity; Nonparametric regression; Regression spline; Spline smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001305816     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00130     Document Type: Article

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