Dear Nick,
Iam sorry, I'll try to be more clear. I need to estimate a semiparametric model, for which I am using plreg command. This command uses lowess for the estimation of the nonparametric portion of the model. I have looked in stata for a method that allows me to calculate the optimum bandwidth I shold use base on my data, and include that optimum in the lowess part of my command, but I have been unsuccesful. That is why I used a method for kernel estimation in the case of a bivariate model y=f(x) (i.e. gwarpreg); however, I do not know how to translate the results in terms of the percentage of the sample that I shoud use for the lowess. Probably the question here is, is there any command with which I can obtain an optimum bandwidth for lowess?
Thanks and any clue on this will be deeply appreciate
Naneida
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: bandwidth from l2cvwarp and its use in lowess
-l2cvwarp- gives one of several competing choices for "optimum"
bandwidth in kernel density estimation, a univariate problem. I don't
see what that has to do with lowess- (a bivariate problem in Stata) or
-plreg- (a trivariate or higher problem).
There's a small industry in such criteria that tests and exhibits the
competence of mathematical statisticians. For practical data analysis a
better test is consistency with scientific or practical needs as given
by the context of your problem.
Nick
[email protected]
Lazarte Alcala, Naneida
I have used the command l2cvwarp (not part of official Stata, it is in
STB 27/snp6_2) which is the WARPing version of the L2CV (Least squares
cross-validation method) to determine the optimal bandwidth that I need
to use for performing nonparametric estimation. From the command I
obtain the bandwidth that minimizes the L2CV function, which is 4,000,
but now I need to "translate it" in order to use it in the plreg
command (this one is also a user-written command that performs
semiparametric estimation). The plreg command option bandw() accepts
bandwidths between 0 and 1, e.g. a bandwidth 0.8, which is de default
one, says that 80% of the data is being used to the smoothing at each x.
Can anybody tell me how I should understand the bandwidth from l2cvwarp
and put it in terms of the plreg command?(this command uses lowess to
estimate the nonparametric part of the model).
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