We review variable selection and variable screening in high-dimensional linear models. Thereby, a major focus is an empirical comparison of various estimation methods with respect to true and false positive selection rates based on 128 different sparse scenarios from semi-real data (real data...

The paper presents smooth estimation of densities utilizing penalized splines. The idea is to represent the unknown density by a convex mixture of basis densities, where the weights are estimated in a penalized form. The proposed method extends the work of Komárek and Lesaffre (Comput Stat Data...

Local polynomial fitting for univariate data has been widely studied and discussed, but up until now the multivariate equivalent has often been deemed impractical, due to the so-called curse of dimensionality. Here, rather than discounting it completely, we use density as a threshold to...

In this note we show that the mathematical tools of cooperative game theory allow a successful approach to the statistical problem of estimating a density function. Specifically, any random sample of an absolutely continuous random variable determines a transferable utility game, the Shapley...