The not-so-smoother

In this thesis, a local smoothing method, termed the not-so-smoother, designed to estimate discontinuous regression functions is proposed. Local smoothing techniques estimate the regression function at a given point by finding the "best fit" through the observations within a fixed neigh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eveson, Jennifer Paige
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4736