Bandwidth Selection Concerns for Jump Point Discontinuity Preservation in the Regression Setting Using M-smoothers and the Extension to hypothesis Testing
Most traditional parametric and nonparametric regression methods operate under the assumption that the true function is continuous over the design space. For methods such as ordinary least squares polynomial regression and local polynomial regression the functional estimates are constrained to be c...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26529 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03282000-16450058/ |