Error-dependent smoothing rules in local linear regression

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 429-447

  Cheng, Ming Yen ^a,b   Hall, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Kernel method; Nonparametric regression; Tail weight; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036556654     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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