A general approach to heteroscedastic linear regression

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-146

  Leslie, David S ^a   Kohn, Robert ^b   Nott, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Dirichlet process mixture; Heteroscedasticity; Model checking; Nonparametric regression; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249736819     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-006-9013-8     Document Type: Article

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