PAIGE, ROBERT L.; SUN, SHAN; WANG, KEYI - In: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 36 (2009) 1, pp. 112-126
We develop a variance reduction method for smoothing splines. For a given point of estimation, we define a variance-reduced spline estimate as a linear combination of classical spline estimates at three nearby points. We first develop a variance reduction method for spline estimators in...