Revisiting fitting monotone polynomials to data

Computational Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1989-2005

  Murray, Kevin ^a,b   Müller, Samuel ^a   Turlach, Berwin A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Monotone polynomial; Monotone regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884700912     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-012-0390-5     Document Type: Article

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