• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.113-122
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• 2006

We investigate the mathematical background, statistical methodology, and the teaching of computer-software field using smoothing methodology in this paper. Also we investigate conception and methodology of histogram, kernel density estimator, adaptive kernel estimator, bandwidth selection based on mathematics and statistics.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.149-158
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• 1994

Nonparametric regression technique using kernel estimator is an attractive alternative that has received some attention, recently. The kernel estimate depends on two quantities which have to be provided by the user : the kernel function and the bandwidth. However, the more difficult problem is how to find an appropriate bandwidth which controls the amount of smoothing (see Silverman, 1986). Thus, in practical situation, it is certainly desirable to determine an appropriate bandwidth in some automatic fashion. Thus, the problem is to find a data-driven or adaptive (i.e., depending only on the data and then directly computable in practice) bandwidth that performs reasonably well relative to the best theoretical bandwidth. In this paper, we introduce a relation between bias and variance of mean square error. Thus, we present a simple and effective algorithm for selecting local bandwidths in kernel regression.