The problem of the estimation of a regression function by continuous piecewise linear functions is formulated as a nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problem. Estimates are defined by minimization of the empirical L 2 risk over a class of functions, which are defined as maxima of minima of linear...

Nonparametric estimation of nonstationary velocity fields from 3D particle tracking velocimetry data is considered. The velocities of tracer particles are computed from their positions measured experimentally with random errors by high-speed cameras observing turbulent flows in fluids. Thus...

In this paper we study the problem of estimating the density of the error distribution in a random design regression model, where the error is assumed to be independent of the design variable. Our main result is that the L1 error of the kernel density estimate applied to residuals of a...

A Monte Carlo method for estimation of the optimal design of a nonlinear parametric regression problem is presented. The basic idea is to use Monte Carlo to produce values of the error of a parametric regression estimate for randomly chosen designs and randomly chosen parameters; then, using...