Cosmo: A constrained scatterplot smoother for estimating convex, monotonic transformations

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 444-455

  Dole, David ^a  

^a ECONorthwest   (United States)

Author keywords

Convexity; Generalized additive models; Hedonic price functions; Isotonic regression; Nonparametric regression; Regression splines; Smoothing splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033453038     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1999.10524832     Document Type: Article

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