Cobs: Qualitatively constrained smoothing via linear programming

Computational Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-337

  He, Xuming ^a,b   Ng, Pin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Constraint; Information criterion; Knot selection; Linear program; Nonparametric regression; Regression quantile; Smoothing spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033412156     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001800050019     Document Type: Article

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