Many studies have suggested that there is an inverse relationship between education and number of children among women from sub-Saharan Africa countries, including Malawi. However, a crucial limitation of these analyses is that they do not control for the potential endogeneity of education. The...

This study considers the theoretical bootstrap “coupling” techniques for nonparametric robust smoothers and quantile regression, and we verify the bootstrap improvement. To handle the curse of dimensionality, a variant of “coupling” bootstrap techniques is developed for additive models...

This paper deals with the implementation of an additive linear model for mixture of mixtures including major and minor components. Experimental designs, derived from designs for qualitative factors, are built for the two classical cases of type A or type B mixtures. With such designs the...

This paper examines the effect of FDI on the process of economic growth by allowing the impact to differ both across each country and also across each time period. We apply non-parametric techniques taking into account the previously documented nonlinear effects of initial income and human...

This article develops a mean field variational Bayes approximation algorithm for posterior inferences of the recently proposed partially linear additive models with simultaneous and automatic variable selection and linear/nonlinear component identification abilities. To solve the problem induced...

We consider the estimation problem of conditional quantile when multi-dimensional covariates are involved. To overcome the “curse of dimensionality” yet retain model flexibility, we propose two partially linear models for conditional quantiles: partially linear single-index models (QPLSIM)...