Asymptotic Confidence Regions for Kernel Smoothing of a Varying-Coefficient Model with Longitudinal Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 444, 1998, Pages 1388-1402

  Wu, Colin O ^a   Chiang, Chin Tsang ^b   Hoover, Donald R ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Confidence interval; Kernel estimate; Nonparametric regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032283833     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473800     Document Type: Article

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