Abstract
Traditional parametric and nonparametric regression techniques encounter serious over smoothing problems when jump point discontinuities exist in the underlying mean function. Recently, Chu, Glad, Godtliebsen and Marron (1998) developed a method using a modified M-smoothing technique to preserve jumps and spikes while producing a smooth estimate of the mean function. The performance of Chu etal.'s (1998) method is quite sensitive to the choice of the required bandwidths g and h. Furthermore, it is not obvious how to extend certain commonly used automatic bandwidth selection procedures when jumps and spikes are present. In this paper we propose a rule of thumb method of choosing the smoothing parameters based on asymptotic optimal bandwidth formulas and robust estimates of unknown quantities. We also evaluate the proposed bandwidth selection method via a small simulation study.
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