Re: [R] Inquiry about bandwidth rescaling in Ksmooth

2023-10-27 Thread Jan Failenschmid via R-help
Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:19 To: Jan Failenschmid Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Inquiry about bandwidth rescaling in Ksmooth Apologies in advance if my comments don't help, in which case, no need to respond, but I noted in ?ksmooth: "bandwidth the bandwidth. The k

Re: [R] Inquiry about bandwidth rescaling in Ksmooth

2023-10-26 Thread Bert Gunter
Apologies in advance if my comments don't help, in which case, no need to respond, but I noted in ?ksmooth: "bandwidth the bandwidth. The kernels are scaled so that their quartiles (viewed as probability densities) are at ± 0.25*bandwidth." So, could this be a source of the discrepancies you cite

[R] Inquiry about bandwidth rescaling in Ksmooth

2023-10-26 Thread Jan Failenschmid via R-help
Dear Sir, Madam, or to whom this may concern, my name is Jan Failenschmid and I am a Ph.D. student at Tilburg University. For my project I have been looking into different types of kernel regression estimators and corresponding R functions. While comparing different functions I noticed that stats