Estimation of observation-error variance in errors-in-variables regression

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1023-1063

  Delaigle, Aurore ^a   Hall, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Kernel estimation; Nonparametric curve estimation; Nonparametric regression; Parametric model; Statistical smoothing; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958273891     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5705/ss.2009.039     Document Type: Article

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