Abstract
Outer product of gradients (OPG) achieves dimension reduction via estimating the gradients of the regression function. In this paper, we propose two novel OPG estimators via local rank regression: the rank OPG estimator and the Walsh-average OPG estimator. Both proposals guard against a wide range of error distributions, and are safe alternatives to existing OPG estimators based on local linear regression or local L1 regression. The effectiveness of the new proposals are demonstrated via extensive numerical studies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 239-249 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 22 Jan 2017 |
Keywords
- Local Walsh-average regression
- non-parametric regression
- order determination
- outer product gradient