In this paper, the asymptotic optimality of the cross validation bandwidth selector for the local polynomial fitting under strongly mixing dependence is obtained. The asymptotic normality of the bandwidth selected by the cross-validation method is derived, which is an extension of W. Härdle, P....

One of the most difficult problems in applications of semi-parametric partially linear single-index models (PLSIM) is the choice of pilot estimators and complexity parameters which may result in radically different estimators. Pilot estimators are often assumed to be root-n consistent, although...

Semiparametric linear transformation models have received much attention due to their high flexibility in modeling survival data. A useful estimating equation procedure was recently proposed by Chen et al. (2002) [21] for linear transformation models to jointly estimate parametric and...

In financial practice, it is important to understand the dependence structure between the returns of individual assets and the market index. This is particularly true under extreme situations. Theoretically, this amounts to regressing the dependence relationship against a set of pre-specified...