Girard, Stéphane; Jacob, Pierre - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 99 (2008) 3, pp. 403-420
We present a new method for estimating the frontier of a multidimensional sample. The estimator is based on a kernel regression on the power-transformed data. We assume that the exponent of the transformation goes to infinity while the bandwidth of the kernel goes to zero. We give conditions on...