Course TopicsThis short course will provide an overview of non-parametric statistical techniques. The course will first describe what non-parametric statistics are, when they should be used, and their ...

Michael Vogt, Oliver Linton, Classification of non-parametric regression functions in longitudinal data models, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 79, ...

In the common non-parametric regression model the problem of testing for the parametric form of the conditional variance is considered. A stochastic process based on the difference between the ...

This is generally due to a mismatch between the parametric distributions appropriate for daily flows versus monthly or annual flows, the high dimension of the disaggregation problem, compounded ...