Empirical-bias bandwidths for local polynomial nonparametric regression and density estimation

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 1049-1062

  Ruppert, David ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve and surface fitting; Derivative estimation; Heteroscedasticity; Local bandwidth; Local regression; Variance function estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010027636     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474061     Document Type: Article

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