On kernel method for sliced average variance estimation

  • Authors:
  • Li-Ping Zhu;Li-Xing Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • East China Normal University, Shanghai, China and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China;East China Normal University, Shanghai, China and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Multivariate Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we use the kernel method to estimate sliced average variance estimation (SAVE) and prove that this estimator is both asymptotically normal and root n consistent. We use this kernel estimator to provide more insight about the differences between slicing estimation and other sophisticated local smoothing methods. Finally, we suggest a Bayes information criterion (BIC) to estimate the dimensionality of SAVE. Examples and real data are presented for illustrating our method.