Three sides of smoothing: Categorical data smoothing, nonparametric regression, and density estimation

International Statistical Review

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-156

  Simonoff, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kernel estimator; Local likelihood estimator; Local polynomial estimator; Maximum penalized likelihood estimator; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032373944     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.1998.tb00411.x     Document Type: Article

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