Lavergne, Pascal; Maistre, Samuel; Patilea, Valentin - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
We consider testing the significance of a subset of covariates in a nonparamet- ric regression. These covariates can be continuous and/or discrete. We propose a new kernel-based test that smoothes only over the covariates appearing under the null hypothesis, so that the curse of dimensionality...