Beheshti, Neshat; Racine, Jeffrey S.; Soofi, Ehsan S. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2015
This paper addresses the following question: How much information do the kernel function and the bandwidth provide for … nonparametric kernel estimation? The question is addressed by showing that kernel estimation of a cumulative distribution function … smooth estimate. The transmission channel is the kernel function itself, which is a conditional distribution with a data …