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Simultaneous confidence bands and hypothesis testing in varying-coefficient models. (English) Zbl 0962.62032

A varying-coefficients regression model of the form \(Y\sum_{j=1}^p a_j(U)X_j+\varepsilon_j\) is considered, where \((U,X_1,\dots,X_p)\) are covariates, \(Y\) is a response variable, \(\text{Var}(\varepsilon \mid U,X_1,\dots,X_p)=\sigma^2(U)\).
Local least squares with a local Tailor series approximation of \(a_j\) are used to derive estimators for \(a_j\). Asymptotics of the estimators in the uniform norm are investigated. The results are applied to confidence bands construction and hypothesis testing. Results of simulations and analysis of an environmental data set are presented.

MSC:

62G08 Nonparametric regression and quantile regression
62J02 General nonlinear regression
62P12 Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics
62G15 Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions

Software:

KernSmooth; fda (R)