Breaking the curse of dimensionality in nonparametric testing

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-122

  Lavergne, Pascal ^a   Patilea, Valentin ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Curse of dimensionality; Nonparametric methods; Testing

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTING;

DIMENSIONALITY; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; PARAMETRIC REGRESSION;

DIMENSIONAL STABILITY;

EID: 38149019298     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

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