Abstract
ABSTRACTLocal linear estimator is a popularly used method to estimate the non-parametric regression functions, and many methods have been derived to estimate the smoothing parameter, or the bandwidth in this case. In this article, we propose an information criterion-based bandwidth selection method, with the degrees of freedom originally derived for non-parametric inferences. Unlike the plug-in method, the new method does not require preliminary parameters to be chosen in advance, and is computationally efficient compared to the cross-validation (CV) method. Numerical study shows that the new method performs better or comparable to existing plug-in method or CV method in terms of the estimation of the mean functions, and has lower variability than CV selectors. Real data applications are also provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the new method.
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