lprOperator {sharpPen}

Local Polynomial Estimator Matrix Construction

Description

Construct a matrix based on the local polynomial estimation at a corresponding sequence of x data and sequence of gridpoint z.

Usage

  lprOperator(h,xx,zz,p)

Arguments

h

the kernel bandwidth smoothing parameter.

xx

numeric vector of x data. Missing values are not accepted.

zz

numeric vector of gridpoint z data. Missing values are not accepted.

p

degree of local polynomial used.

Value

local polynomial estimator matrix

Author(s)

X.J. Hu