Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"local polynomial smoothing"”.
-
The impact of livestock and gender on household expenditure patterns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia
… this type. The thesis first uses non-parametric local polynomial smoothing estimation to create Engel curves for households exogenously treated with livestock ownership and control households. Next, budget share regressions are run using Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR). A relationship …
-
Approximating the distributions of x2-type mixtures via matching four cumulants
… to nonparametric goodness-of-fit test based on local polynomial smoother is investigated. Two simulation studies are conducted to compare the non-central chi-square-approximation, the central chi-square-approximation and the normal approximation numerically. The methodologies are illustrated …
-
One and Two-Step Estimation of Time Variant Parameters and Nonparametric Quantiles
… and discusses several one-step and two-step smoothing methods of time variant nonparametric quantiles and time variant parameters from probability models. First, we investigate and develop nonparametric techniques for measuring extreme quantiles. The method involves aggregating data by an …