Computational aspects of nonparametric smoothing with illustrations from the sm library

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 545-560

  Bowman, A W ^a   Azzalini, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binning; Density estimation; Graphics; Kernel methods; Large datasets; Nonparametric regression; Quadratic forms; S Plus; sm library; Smoothing techniques

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0037471438     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00118-4     Document Type: Article

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