Nonparametric function smoothing: fiducial inference of free knot splines and ecological applications
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Abstract
Nonparametric function estimation has proven to be a useful tool for applied statisticians. Classic techniques such as locally weighted regression and smoothing splines are being used in a variety of circumstances to address questions at the forefront of ecological theory. We first examine an ecological threshold problem and define a threshold as where the derivative of the estimated functions changes states (negative, possibly zero, or positive) and present a graphical method that examines the state changes across a wide interval of smoothing levels. We apply this method to macro-invertabrate ...
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