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A smooth simultaneous confidence band for conditional variance function

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  • Li Cai
  • Lijian Yang

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A smooth simultaneous confidence band (SCB) is obtained for heteroscedastic variance function in nonparametric regression by applying spline regression to the conditional mean function followed by Nadaraya–Waston estimation using the squared residuals. The variance estimator is uniformly oracally efficient, that is, it is as efficient as, up to order less than $$n^{-1/2}$$ n - 1 / 2 , the infeasible kernel estimator when the conditional mean function is known, uniformly over the data range. Simulation experiments provide strong evidence that confirms the asymptotic theory while the computing is extremely fast. The proposed SCB has been applied to test for heteroscedasticity in the well-known motorcycle data and Old Faithful geyser data with different conclusions. Copyright Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 2015

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  • Li Cai & Lijian Yang, 2015. "A smooth simultaneous confidence band for conditional variance function," TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 24(3), pages 632-655, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:testjl:v:24:y:2015:i:3:p:632-655
    DOI: 10.1007/s11749-015-0427-5
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