Estimating residual variance in nonparametric regression using least squares

Biometrika

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 821-830

  Tong, Tiejun ^a   Wang, Yuedong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Difference based estimator; Least squares; Nonparametric regression; Quadratic form; Residual variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944441798     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/92.4.821     Document Type: Review

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