Browsing by Subject "Nonparametric regression"
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(2015-08-03)Smoothing splines provide flexible nonparametric regression estimators. Penalized likelihood method is adopted when responses are from exponential families and multivariate models are constructed with certain analysis of ...
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(2018-05-03)This dissertation includes two essays: The first one is on nonparametric inference in causal effect models, and the second one is on nonparametric estimation in financial economics. In the first essay, we propose a ...
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(2019-11-20)In production economics, the cost function is a critical tool used to infer productivity and efficiency measures to describe the key features of an industry. This dissertation investigates nonparametric estimators with ...
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(2012-10-19)As concern grows about energy and environment issues, energy and environmental modeling and related policy analysis are critical issues for today's society. Polluting firms such as coal power plants play an important role ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)In an experiment to understand colon carcinogenesis, all animals were exposed to a carcinogen while half the animals were also exposed to radiation. Spatially, we measured the existence of aberrant crypt foci (ACF), namely ...