Testing additivity by kernel-based methods - What is a reasonable test?

Bernoulli

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 669-697

  Dette, Holger ^a   Von Garsten Libres Wilkau, U N D ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive models; Curse of dimensionality; Dimension reduction; Marginal integration estimate; Test of additivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742319277     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318732     Document Type: Article

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