An introduction to nonparametric multimodal regression

  1. Alonso-Pena, M. 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Revista:
BEIO, Boletín de Estadística e Investigación Operativa

ISSN: 1889-3805

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 36

Número: 1

Páginas: 5-23

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: BEIO, Boletín de Estadística e Investigación Operativa

Resumen

The mean, the median and the mode are the classical location measures introduced in any elementary course in statistics. Although mean and median based statistical methods are the usual approaches in different contexts, the mode seems to be somehow neglected. This paper gives a review on nonparametric multimodal regression, an approach for regression where, instead of seeking the mean of the conditional density, as in classical regression models, the conditional local modes are targeted. In addition to revising the existing literature on multimodal regression, the finite sample performance of the multimodal regression estimator is explored with both simulated and real data examples. © 2020 SEIO

Información de financiación

The author acknowledges the financial support from the Xunta de Galicia grant ED481A-2019/139 through Programa de axudas á etapa predoutoral da Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Pro-fesional). This research has been partially supported by Project MTM2016-76969-P from the AEI co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Competitive Reference Groups 2017-2020 (ED431C 2017/38) from the Xunta de Galicia through the ERDF.

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