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Confidence bands in nonparametric regression with length biased data

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In this paper we deduce a confidence bands construction for the nonparametric estimation of a regression curve from length biased data, where a result from Bickel and Rosenblatt (1973,The Annals of Statistics,1, 1071–1095) is adapted to this new situation. The construction also involves the estimation of the variance of the local linear estimator of the regression, where we use a finite sample modification in order to improve the performance of these confidence bands in the case of finite samples.

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    J. A. Cristóbal, J. L. Ojeda & J. T. Alcalá

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Cristóbal, J.A., Ojeda, J.L. & Alcalá, J.T. Confidence bands in nonparametric regression with length biased data. Ann Inst Stat Math 56, 475–496 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02530537

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