This paper presents a quadratic one-step bootstrap method for binary response data. Rather than resampling from the original sample, the proposed method resamples summands appearing in the quadratic approximation of the estimates. It enjoys the same computational simplicity as its linear...

Estimating all parameters in a multiparameter response model as smooth functions of an explanatory variable is very similar to estimating the different components of an additive model for the response mean. It is shown that, in a general estimating framework, local polynomial backfitting...

We study the class of penalized spline estimators, which enjoy similarities to both regression splines, without penalty and with fewer knots than data points, and smoothing splines, with knots equal to the data points and a penalty controlling the roughness of the fit. Depending on the number of...