This paper considers the development of spatially adaptive smoothing splines for the estimation of a regression function with nonhomogeneous smoothness across the domain. Two challenging issues arising in this context are the evaluation of the equivalent kernel and the determination of a local...

We study a class of monotone univariate regression estimators. We use B-splines to approximate an underlying regression function and estimate spline coefficients based on grouped data. We investigate asymptotic properties of two monotone estimators: a grouped Brunk estimator and a penalized...