Constrained penalized splines

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 190-206

  Meyer, Mary C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone projection; Convex regression; Function estimation; Model selection; Monotone regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856854471     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10137     Document Type: Article

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