NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF REGRESSION FUNCTIONS WITH DISCRETE REGRESSORS

作者:Ouyang Desheng; Li Qi; Racine Jeffrey S*
来源:Econometric Theory, 2009, 25(1): 1-42.
DOI:10.1017/S0266466608090014

摘要

We consider the problem of estimating a nonparametric regression model containing categorical regressors only. We investigate the theoretical properties of least squares cross-validated smoothing parameter selection, establish the rate of convergence (to zero) of the smoothing parameters for relevant regressors, and show that there is a high probability that the smoothing parameters for irrelevant regressors converge to their upper bound values, thereby automatically smoothing out the irrelevant regressors. A small-scale simulation study shows that the proposed cross-validation-based estimator performs well in finite-sample settings.

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