Chen, Xiaohong; Christensen, Timothy M. - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2014
We show that spline and wavelet series regression estimators for weakly dependent regressors attain the optimal uniform (i.e., sup-norm) convergence rate (n/log n)^{-p/(2p+d)} of Stone (1982), where d is the number of regressors and p is the smoothness of the regression function. The optimal...