Testing the Significance of Categorical Predictor Variables in Nonparametric Regression Models

DOI10.1080/07474930600972590zbMath1106.62046OpenAlexW2022008092MaRDI QIDQ3430301

Q. Li, Jeffery S. Racine, Jeffrey D. Hart

Publication date: 21 March 2007

Published in: Econometric Reviews (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474930600972590

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapkernel smoothinginferencediscrete regressors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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