Relevance weighted smoothing and a new bootstrap method

This thesis addresses two quite different topics. First, we consider several relevance weighted smoothing methods for relevant sample information. This topic can be viewed as a generalization of nonparametric smoothing. Second, we propose a new bootstrap method which is based on estimating functi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hu, Feifang
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7074