Significance testing in nonparametric regression based on the bootstrap

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1469-1507

  Delgado, Miguel A ^a   Manteiga, Wenceslao González ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Higher order kernels; Nonparametric regression; Restrictions on nonparametric curves; Selection of variables; U processes; Wild bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470897     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1013203462     Document Type: Article

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