Hypothesis testing in smoothing spline models

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 581-597

  Liu, Anna ^a   Wang, Yuedong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian models for smoothing splines; Connections between linear mixed effects models and smoothing splines; F test; GCV test; GML test; LMP test; Symmetrized Kullback Leibler test

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042552049     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650310001623416     Document Type: Article

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