Smoothed L-estimation of regression function
Cizek,P. Tamine,J. Härdle,W.K.
Cizek,P.
Tamine,J.
Härdle,W.K.
Abstract
The Nadaraya–Watson nonparametric estimator of regression is known to be highly sensitive to the presence of outliers in data. This sensitivity can be reduced, for example, by using local L-estimates of regression. Whereas the local L-estimation is traditionally done using an empirical conditional distribution function, we propose to use instead a smoothed conditional distribution function. The asymptotic distribution of the proposed estimator is derived under mild β-mixing conditions, and additionally, we show that the smoothed L-estimation approach provides computational as well as statistical finite-sample improvements. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the modelling of implied volatility.
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Appeared earlier as CentER DP 2006-20
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2008
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Cizek, P, Tamine, J & Härdle, W K 2008, 'Smoothed L-estimation of regression function', Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol. 52, pp. 5154-5162.