The practice of non-parametric estimation by solving inverse problems: The example of transformation models

Econometrics Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Fève, Frédérique ^a   Florens, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumental variables; Integral equations; Selection of the regularization parameter and of the bandwidths; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957172702     PISSN: 13684221     EISSN: 1368423X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-423X.2010.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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