Estimating derivatives for samples of sparsely observed functions, with application to online auction dynamics

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 704-717

  Liu, Bitao ^a   Müller, Hans Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic system; Eigenfunction; Functional data analysis; Price curve; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549101908     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0115     Document Type: Article

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