We present a fundamentally unique method of nonparametric regression using clusters and test it against classically established methods. We compare two nonlinear regression estimation packages called ‘NNS', Viole (NNS: nonlinear nonparametric statistics, 2016), and ‘np', Hayfield and Racine...

HRISHIKESH D. VINOD, PhD, is Director of the Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy and Professor of Economics at Fordham University in New York. He is also a Fellow of the International Institute of Public Ethics and of the Journal of Econometrics. DERRICK P. REAGLE, PhD, is Associate Chair...