A general class of powerful and flexible modeling techniques, spline smoothing has attracted a great deal of research attention in recent years and has been wid

Nonparametric function estimation with stochastic data, otherwise known as smoothing, has been studied by several generations of statisticians. Assisted by the

This user guide presents a popular smoothing tool with practical applications in machine learning, engineering, and statistics.

Provides a unified account of the most popular approaches to nonparametric regression smoothing. This edition contains discussions of boundary corrections for t

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