Smoothing regression quantile by combining k-NN estimation with local linear kernel fitting

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 759-774

  Yu, Keming ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Correlated regression model; Double kernel method; k NN method; Local linear kernel smoothing; Mean square error; Regression quantile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033461256     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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