Computes the Nadaraya-Watson weights.

Method to implement some newly developed methods for the
estimation of the conditional survival function. See Meira-Machado,
Sestelo and Goncalves (2016) <doi:10.1002/bimj.201500038>.

Marta Sestelo

condSURV

Estimation of the Conditional Survival Function for Ordered
Multivariate Failure Time Data

NWW function

<dl><dt>covariate</dt>
<dd>Covariate values for obtaining weights.</dd>
<dt>x</dt>
<dd>Covariate value to compute the weight at.</dd>
<dt>kernel</dt>
<dd>A character string specifying the desired kernel. See details
below for possible options. Defaults to "gaussian" where the gaussian
density kernel will be used.</dd>
<dt>bw</dt>
<dd>A single numeric value to compute a kernel density bandwidth.</dd></dl>

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Luis Meira-Machado and Marta Sestelo

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Nadaraya-Watson weights. — NWW

<dl>

<dt>covariate</dt>
<dd>Covariate values for obtaining weights.</dd>


<dt>x</dt>
<dd>Covariate value to compute the weight at.</dd>


<dt>kernel</dt>
<dd>A character string specifying the desired kernel. See details
below for possible options. Defaults to "gaussian" where the gaussian
density kernel will be used.</dd>


<dt>bw</dt>
<dd>A single numeric value to compute a kernel density bandwidth.</dd>

</dl>

NWW: Nadaraya-Watson weights.

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