In many settings with possibly non-linear influence of covariates, such as in the present application with children's respiratory health data, generalized additive models are an attractive choice. Although techniques for fitting these have been extensively investigated, there are fewer results...

For speed-flow data, which are intensively discussed in transportation science, common nonparametric regression models of the type "y"="m"("x")+noise turn out to be inadequate since simple functional models cannot capture the essential relationship between the predictor and response. Instead a...

On-line auctions pose many challenges for the empirical researcher, one of which is the effective and reliable modelling of price paths. We propose a novel way of modelling price paths in eBay's on-line auctions by using functional data analysis. One of the practical challenges is that the...