How far are automatically chosen regression smoothing parameters from their optimum?

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 83, Issue 401, 1988, Pages 86-95

  Härdle, Wolfgang ^a   Hall, Peter ^b   Marron, J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth selection; Curve estimation; Kernel regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909719647     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1988.10478568     Document Type: Article

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