Cost function estimation often involves data on a function and a family of its derivatives. Such data can substantially improve convergence rates of nonparametric estimators. We propose series-type estimators which incorporate the various derivative data into a single nonparametric least-squares...

Many practical problems require nonparametric estimates of regression functions, and local polynomial regression has emerged as a leading approach. In applied settings practitioners often adopt either the local constant or local linear variants, or choose the order of the local polynomial to be...

We consider estimation for a class of Lévy processes, modelled as a sum of a drift, a symmetric stable process and a compound Poisson process. We propose a nonparametric approach to estimating unknown parameters of our model, including the drift, the scale and index parameters in the stable...