An analysis of transformations for additive nonparametric regression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 440, 1997, Pages 1512-1521

  Linton, Oliver B ^a   Chen, Rong ^b   Wang, Naiysin ^b   Härdle, Wolfgang ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Dimensionality reduction; Kernels

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031321072     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473673     Document Type: Article

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