Research in combining of economic forecasts made by several research institutes on the same economic variable has focused on estimation, hoping that the combined forecast will be improved by taking into account the expert opinions of the institutes. We provide a confidence interval on the...

In many applications one is interested to detect certain (known) patterns in the mean of a process with smallest delay. Using an asymptotic framework which allows to capture that feature, we study a class of appropriate sequential nonparametric kernel procedures under local nonparametric...