A constructive approach to the estimation of dimension reduction directions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2654-2690

  Xia, Yingcun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conditional density function; Convergence of algorithm; Double kernel smoothing; Efficient dimension reduction; Root n consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549110291     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000352     Document Type: Article

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