Beschreibung:
This is the second volume of a text on the theory and practice of maximum penalized likelihood estimation. It is intended for graduate students in statistics, operations research and applied mathematics, as well as for researchers and practitioners in the field. The present volume deals with nonparametric regression.
This book is intended for graduate students in statistics and industrial mathematics, as well as researchers and practitioners in the field. It covers both theory and practice of nonparametric estimation. The text is novel in its use of maximum penalized likelihood estimation, and the theory of convex minimization problems (fully developed in the text) to obtain convergence rates. A substantial effort has been made to discuss computational details, and to include simulation studies and analyses of some classical data sets using fully automatic (data driven) procedures.
Nonparametric Regression.- Smoothing Splines.- Kernel Estimators.- Sieves.- Local Polynomial Estimators.- Other Nonparametric Regression Problems.- Smoothing Parameter Selection.- Computing Nonparametric Estimators.- Kalman Filtering for Spline Smoothing.- Equivalent Kernels for Smoothing Splines.- Strong Approximation and Confidence Bands.- Nonparametric Regression in Action.