Statistical methods for function estimation and classification

This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter focuses on adaptive smoothing splines for fitting functions with varying roughness. In the first part of the first chapter, we study an asymptotically optimal procedure to choose the value of a discretized version of the variable smoothing pa...

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Main Author: Kim, Heeyoung
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44806