An algorithm for quantile smoothing splines

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-118

  Ng, Pin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Monotone regression; Nonparametric regression; Quantile; Robustness; Splines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; MONOTONE REGRESSION; NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION; PARABOLIC SPLINE; QUANTILE SMOOTHING SPLINES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030192103     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(95)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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