Smoothing spline estimation of variance functions

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 312-329

  Liu, Anna ^a   Tong, Tiejun ^b   Wang, Yuedong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Array based comparative genomic hybridization; Generalized approximate cross validation; Generalized maximum likelihood; Heteroscedasticity; Smoothing parameter; Unbiased risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250738972     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186007X204528     Document Type: Article

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