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Locally optimal adaptive smoothing splines

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  • Heeyoung Kim
  • Xiaoming Huo

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Smoothing splines are widely used for estimating an unknown function in the nonparametric regression. If data have large spatial variations, however, the standard smoothing splines (which adopt a global smoothing parameter λ) perform poorly. Adaptive smoothing splines adopt a variable smoothing parameter λ(x) (i.e. the smoothing parameter is a function of the design variable x) to adapt to varying roughness. In this paper, we derive an asymptotically optimal local penalty function for λ(x)∈C3 under suitable conditions. The derived locally optimal penalty function in turn is used for the development of a locally optimal adaptive smoothing spline estimator. In the numerical study, we show that our estimator performs very well using several simulated and real data sets.

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  • Heeyoung Kim & Xiaoming Huo, 2012. "Locally optimal adaptive smoothing splines," Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 665-680.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:gnstxx:v:24:y:2012:i:3:p:665-680
    DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2012.693610
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