A class of grouped brunk estimators and penalized spline estimators for monotone regression

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 585-601

  Wang, Xiao ^a   Shen, Jinglai ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

B spline; Difference penalty; Equivalent kernel; Green's function; Monotone regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955878132     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asq029     Document Type: Article

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