Smoothing splines and shape restrictions

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-252

  Mammen, Enno ^a   Thomas Agnan, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Convexity; Monotonicity; Rates of convergence; Shape restrictions; Smoothing splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033241923     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00147     Document Type: Article

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