On Stein's lemma, dependent covariates and functional monotonicity in multi-dimensional modeling

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2285-2303

  Zhang, Chunming ^a   Li, Jialiang ^b   Meng, Jingci ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

62E15; 62F30; 62H10; 62H20; Additive model; Nonparametric regression; Partially monotone function; primary; secondary; Similarly ordered; Stein's Lemma; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049092497     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2008.02.018     Document Type: Article

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