On the Effect of Bias Estimation on Coverage Accuracy in Nonparametric Inference

DOI10.1080/01621459.2017.1285776zbMath1398.62113arXiv1508.02973OpenAlexW2248407839MaRDI QIDQ4962443

Matias D. Cattaneo, Sebastian Calonico, Max H. Farrell

Publication date: 2 November 2018

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02973

zbMATH Keywords

local polynomial regressionkernel methodsEdgeworth expansioncoverage error

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) General nonlinear regression (62J02)

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Uses Software

• KernSmooth
• SemiPar
• locfit

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