Robust Marginal Integration Procedures
Description
Three robust marginal integration procedures for additive models based on local
polynomial kernel smoothers. As a preliminary estimator of the multivariate
function for the marginal integration procedure, a first approach uses local
constant M-estimators, a second one uses local polynomials of order 1 over all the
components of covariates, and the third one uses M-estimators based on local
polynomials but only in the direction of interest. For this last approach,
estimators of the derivatives of the additive functions can be obtained. All three
procedures can compute predictions for points outside the training set if desired.
See Boente and Martinez (2017) for details.