Ebook: Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications: Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability 66

Data-analytic approaches to regression problems, arising from many scientific disciplines are described in this text. The aim of these nonparametric methods is to relax assumptions on the form of a regression function, and to let data search for a suitable function that describes the data well. The use of these nonparametric functions with parametric techniques can yield very powerful data anlysis tools.