Wavelet regression using a Lévy prior model

This thesis is concerned with nonparametric regression and regularization. In particular, wavelet regression using a Lévy prior model is investigated. The use of this prior is motivated by the statistical properties, such as heavy-tails, common in many datasets of interest, such as those in financia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Missaoui, Badr
Other Authors: McCoy, Emma
Published: Imperial College London 2013
Subjects:
510
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631178