Effective nonparametric estimation in the case of severely discretized data

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 331-367

  Coppejans, Mark ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

B splines; Discretization; Kernels; Nonparametric density estimators; Nonparametric regression estimators

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 0347354952     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(03)00151-9     Document Type: Article

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