Confidence intervals based on local linear smoother

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-99

  Chen, Song Xi ^a   Qin, Yong Song ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Coverage probability; Edgeworth expansion; Non parametric regression; Normal approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036522567     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00273     Document Type: Article

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