Kernel estimators of a regression function are investigated. The bandwidths are locally chosen by a data-driven method based on the minimization of a local cross-validation criterion. This method is ...

Assume that for i=1 to n, the ith measurement y i of the response y and the corresponding measurement x i of the vector x of p predictors are related by where g is ...

Cancer is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with over 10 million new cases every year in Europe and the US. It is estimated that 3 million new cases will be diagnosed with 1.7 million deaths ...

sciences. As a result of this widespread interest in identifying non-monotonic relationships in data and the well-known problems with standard parametric approaches based on quadratic regression ...

High-dimensional data analysis has been an active area, and the main focus areas have been variable selection and dimension reduction. In practice, it occurs often that the variables are located on an ...

In polynomial regression, the values of a dependent variable (also called a response variable) are described or predicted in terms of polynomial terms involving one or more independent or explanatory ...