An essential problem in nonparametric smoothing of noisy data is a proper choice of the bandwidth or window width, which depends on a smoothing parameter <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$k$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. One way to choose <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$k$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> based on the data is leave-one-out-cross-validation. The selection of the cross-validation criterion is...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>

Times between consecutive events are often of interest in medical studies. Usually the events represent different states of the disease process and are modeled using multi-state models. This paper introduces and studies a feasible estimation method for the transition probabilities in a...

In this paper, we develop a fast algorithm for a smoothing spline estimator in multivariate regression. To accomplish this, we employ general concepts associated with roughness penalty methods in conjunction with the theory of radial basis functions and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. It is...