Universally Consistent Regression Function Estimation Using Hierarchial B-Splines

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 138-164

  Kohler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data dependent partitions; Integrated squared error; Least squares estimate; Polynomial splines; Regression estimate; Universal consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001492610     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1998.1782     Document Type: Article

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