Questions tagged [nonparametric-regression]
Nonparametric regression is a form of regression analysis where the form of the functional dependence of the response on the predictors is not assumed. It subsumes many kinds of models, like spline models, kernel regression, gaussian process regression, regression trees or random forrests, and others.
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Gaussian Process Regression prior with observations as integrals?
Consider some standard 1d Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). Suppose you are not happy with a typical mean-zero prior away from the data and you actually want something like the derivative of the mean ...
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To nonparemetrically estimate the conditional mean of a binary outcome $E(D|x_1,x_2)$, can I use a logistic regression with flexible regressors?
Suppose $D$ is a binary outcome and $X_1$, $X_2$ are continuous regressors. I want to nonparametrically estiamte $E(D|X_1=x_1,X_2=x_2)$. I know that we could use local-constant or local linear ...
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Maximum bias for NW estimator when $r(x)$ is Lipschitz (question 17, chapter 5 All of Non-Parametric Statistics)
The general condition is that $Y_i = r(X_i) + \epsilon_i$, and we want to estimate $r$ using Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression.
We additionally assume $r\colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ is lipschitz, so $|...
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Local polynomial Regression: how to show the weights sum up to $1$
Given $(X_i, Y_i)$, and $Y_i = r(X_i) + \epsilon_i$, we want to estimate $r$ using local polynomial regression.
To do so, we minimize $(Y-X\beta)^T W(Y-X\beta)$, where $Y = (Y_1, \ldots, Y_n)^T$, $\...
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Is Synthetic Control Method a nonparametric estimator?
I'm studying causal inference and I'm struggling to understand how to properly classify an estimator as nonparametric. My colleague argued that the Synthetic Control Method is an example of a ...
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Pros and cons of Nadaraya–Watson estimator vs. RKHS method?
Recently I've been reading some materials about nonparametric methods. Two methods related to the word "kernel" rasied my interest-- Nadaraya–Watson estimator and RKHS method.
What's the ...
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How well do Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines work in high dimensional settings?
I have been reading the Hastie and Tibshirani book again lately, and I noticed in Chapter 9 that the mention the MARS algorithm: Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, which is a nonparametric ...
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Calculating local variance
I have some data, and I assume it can be modelled by $y_i = f(x_i) + \epsilon $, where $\epsilon \sim \mathcal{N}(0,\sigma_0^2)$ where $f$ and $\sigma_0^2$ are unknown. I understand that I can ...
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Method of Sieves with Data Driven Basis Functions
Consider a nonparametric regression problem with i.i.d. sampled data $(y_1,x_1), (y_2,x_2),\ldots, (y_n,x_n)$ and regression function
$$y_i = g_0(x_i) + \varepsilon_i,\quad \mathbb E[\varepsilon_i | ...
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Rates of convergence with asymptotically negligibly noisy observations
Apologies in advance if this question is not completely well defined. Suppose that I am estimating a nonparametric model for a conditional expectation function $\mathbb E[Y_i | X_i]$ using some i.i.d. ...
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Why isn't every nonparametric model with random model design an additive noise model?
Let $Y$ be a real random variable and $X$ be a real random vector. In a nonparametric model with additive noise, we assume the relationship
$$Y = f(X) + \epsilon$$
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R: "family" and "degree" specification in loess fitting
I can't understand the difference between the possible specifications of the family option in the loess command in R. This is ...
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why is the nadaraya watson estimator unbiased?
Say I have the model $Y_{i} = m(x_{i}) + \epsilon_{i}$ and $Y_{i}$ and $X_{i}$ are two mutually independent i.i.d. sequences.
Then, how can I show that the Nadaraya Watson estimator is unbiased for ...
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Is the distinction between parametric and non-parametric statistics always clear-cut?
Is the distinction between parametric and non-parametric statistics always clear-cut or do examples of a statistic exists which cannot clearly assigned to one of these categories?
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can I estimate density function of 2d/3d data with kernel smoothing (e.g. ks package R), or are there better estimation methods
I have a 2d matrix of positive values (non integer), where the values can be thought of intensity at an x,y coordinate indexed by the row and column. I want to estimate a density function across this ...
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The nonparametric estimation in generalized regression model
Let $Y_t \in \mathbb{R}$ be a response variable and $X_t$ a $d$-dimensional explanatory variable. Assume we observe the process that $(X_1, Y_1), \cdots, (X_n, Y_n)$.
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Y_{t} = \mu(...
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Gaussian and Epanechnikov Kernel Regressions giving drastically different estimations
sorry if this is the wrong place to be asking this question.
I'm trying to implement kernel regression for a specific dataset I'm working with, but I'm noticing that the trendlines generated by my ...
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Nonparametric Regression
Suppose I have response y, continuous independent variable x and binary variable z.
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Can I use/make prediction/regression if my data is not normally distributes? Are non-parametric test for prediction?
My data is not normally distributed, and I`m confused what tests can I use (non-parametric, of course), but is there any way, to analyse prediction if the data is not normally distributed? I read ...
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About Generalized Additive Models - First parametric estimations, after nonparametric estimations for the remaining components
I wonder is it possible to construct a generalized linear modelin in that way,
First, I will exclude the intercept term, which is standard for GAMs.
Second, I will predict my interested dependent ...
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A particular method for estimating the gradient of a log-density from samples
Suppose I have $N$ samples $x^1, \ldots, x^N$ which were drawn iid from an unknown density $P(x)$.
Suppose I am interested in estimating the vector-valued function $g(x) = \nabla \log P (x)$.
One ...
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Examples for integration estimator
suppose I'm interested in estimating $C=\int_{a}^{b}g(x)dx$, where $a$ and $b$ are known, and $g(x)=E(Y|X=x)$ is an unknown function of $x$. The data I have is $\{Y_{i},X_{i}\}_{i=1}^{n}$, then a ...
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rate of convergence for cross derivative estimation in local linear regression
Suppose $Y_{i}=m(X_{1i},X_{2i})+\epsilon_{i}$, with $E(Y_{i}|X_{1i},X_{2i})=m(X_{1i},X_{2i})$ where $m(\cdot,\cdot)$ is an unknown smooth function. If the estimator $\widehat{m}(x_{1},x_{2})$ is ...
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Intuition of the regression model under fixed design case (nonparametric regression)
Let $(x_1,Y_1), \dotsc, (x_n,Y_n)$ be a random sample from the regression model
$$Y_t=m(x_t)+\epsilon_t.$$
When authors want to develop the asymptotic properties of the local linear estimator of $m$ ...
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Rates of convergence for estimating population mean squared error
Suppose I have an i.i.d. sample $\{(Y_i, X_i)\}_{i=1}^n$ on which I am trying to estimate a conditional expectation model:
$$Y = g(X) + \varepsilon,\quad \mathbb E[\varepsilon | X] = 0$$
There is a ...
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How robust is coxph when the proportional hazards assumption is violated?
How robust is the coxph when I don’t have proportional hazards? How common is non prop hazards and how do I fix it? Does transforming variables help? Does non parametric survival analysis handle non ...
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How Semiparametric regression works?
I am working on semiparametric regression models;
$$y=\beta x_1 +m(x_2)+e$$. I can understand this combination of Parametric and Nonparametric but how to estimate the responses ($\hat y$)?
What is ...
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Multiple regression for left-censored independent and dependent variables
I am interested in developing a predictive multiple regression model which predicts a concentration of one compound based on the measured concentrations of several other compounds. Both the dependent ...
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For non-parametric regression which one has better interpretation and properties, GAM or quantile regression?
As in the topic. I want to interpret data for which I have no clues about the distribution. It's neither count, percentage, continuous. I don't want any transformations. Instead I would like to ...
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Rate of convergence of variance of kernel averages
I'm reading Hansen's (2008, p. 729) Theorem 1 where he bounds the variance of averages of the form
$$\hat\Psi(x)=\frac{1}{Th}\sum_{t=1}^T Y_t K\bigg(\frac{x-X_t}{h}\bigg)$$
given that $\{(Y_t,X_t)\}_{...
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Is there a nonparametric regression to analyze repeated measures
I get involved in a study with only 40 subjects, and each subject has repeated measures at 6 months, 12 months, and 24 months. Originally I supposed that the total sample size 40x3 = 120 should be ...
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In Gaussian Process regression is there a way to force the prior slope to be positive when using a linear kernel?
I'm doing Gaussian process regression on some data $X$ with low sample size, using a squared exponential kernel. From domain knowledge I know that outside the range of my data the regressed function ...
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How many experiments to run (sample-size) if I know I am going to feed them to a non-parametric regression?
I have 2 input variables, $X_1$ and $X_2$ that affect output variable $Y$. I can run experiments where I modify the inputs and measure what happens to the output.
Now, if $X_1$ and $X_2$ were binary, ...
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A comparison of the global optimal binwidth and local optimal binwidth of the histogram estimator
Suppose we have $X_1, \dots, X_n$ to be an i.i.d sample with unknown pdf $f(x)$ and cdf $F(x)$, and define $\hat{f} (x)$ to be the histogram estimator. We also define its Mean Integrated Square Error ...
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Nonparametric approach for regression with a quadratic fit
I'm trying to figure out which nonparametric test I should run on my data.
My data has residuals that are not normal, so I cannot run a linear regression unless I log transform it. However, log ...
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Using Mean Cumulative Function (Nelson-Aalen) to assess drug efficacy
I have a large medical retrospective longitudinal dataset of electronic health records. An individual is identified by an ID. A medical event or drug prescription event is identified using a code and ...
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What is the cost/loss function of K nearest neighbors?
I am able to visualize how KNN works. Essentially take avg of the k nearest train neighbors for regression problem.
However every ML algorithm optimizes a cost/loss function for example: Linear ...
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Nonparametric regression on data with known noise parameterization
What's the best way to regress on data for which we don't have a parameterised generative model (e.g. an arbitrary non-smooth continuous signal, that can be regressed in model-free ways with splines, ...
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Nonparametric regression with missing data
Let $(y_i,x_i,b_i)$ be data at hand, where $y_i$ is a response variable, $x_i$ is covariates, and $b_i$ is an indicator for missing: if 1, then $y_i$ is observable, 0 otherwise. Then, under missing at ...
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Finding the overlap of two Bivariate Non Parametric models using R
I need a few suggestions on some methods to try or to be pointed in the right direction.
I will start off describing the big picture.
I have little stats background. I come from physics and astronomy. ...
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Time complexity of leave-one-out cross validation for nonparametric regression?
From Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach:
Most nonparametric models have the advantage that it is easy to do leave-one-out crossvalidation
without having to recompute everything. With a k-...
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What is the density of $X$ under fixed design?
We observe an i.i.d. sample $(X_1, Y_1), \ldots (X_n, Y_n).$ Let $m(x) = E(Y|X=x),$ $\sigma^2(x) = \operatorname{Var}(Y|X=x)$ and let $f(\cdot)$ be the density of $X.$
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Understanding a Taylor expansion for the bias of local polynomial regression
I'm trying to understand the proof of an expression for the asymptotic bias in local polynomial regression of degree $p\ge0$.
Specifically, I'm distraught with equation $(3.59)$ on page 102 of this ...
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Is calculating a moving average a good way to approximate k-nearest neighbor regression?
Given i.i.d samples (x1,y1), ... (xn,yn) such that yi = f0(xi) + $\epsilon$i, i = 1,... n for some f0
Suppose I want an estimate $\hat{f}$ of f0 using k-nearest-neighbors regression in the ...
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Examples of using MCMC for GP regression
This is a reference request. I am in a position of needing to use MCMC to do Gaussian process regression for a project. I have used MCMC before, and I have used GPs before, but never together. It ...
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What is the basic difference between Sieves, Series and Splines estimators?
As far as I know, Sieve Estimators consists in a broader class of estimators for a function g(x) lying in a space of functions G. The estimation basically consists in choosing the function that best ...
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What is the nonparametric equivalent of the Weighted-Least-Squares-Regression?
I am struggling to find the nonparametric equivalent of the WLSR.
In brief, I need a nonparametric regression method which allows to assign different weights to data according to the uncertainty.
I ...
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approximate a nonparametric CDF in R
I have two vectors of same length. The first vector is a collection of realization from an unknown random variable. The second vector is the distribution computed at each particular realization.
A ...
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Skewed Response Variable a lot zeroes
I am trying to build a non-parametric model to predict pure premium of an insurance policy. Pure premium is simply the expected claim amount of an insurance policy.The problem is, most insurance ...
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Is it appropriate to apply ordinal regression to a continuous response "as is" (with no ties)?
The goal is to run non-parametric general linear model with no restrictions on the design (e.g. not limited to one-way ANOVA as in Kruskal-Wallis test; quantitative factors should be admissible, etc) ...
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