Reducing variance in univariate smoothing

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 522-542

  Cheng, Ming Yen ^a   Peng, Liang ^b   Wu, Jyh Shyang ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Coverage probability; Kernel; Local linear regression; Non parametric smoothing; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749095706     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001398     Document Type: Article

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