Derivatives Without a Formula

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 147 of the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. Estimating the slope and curvature of a regression curve without assuming its shape: differentiation amplifies noise, so the Wang and Lin method behind the npregderiv R package smooths carefully to recover rates of change. Based on the presentation: Nonparametric Estimation of the Derivatives of a Regression Function; O. Savchuk, A.A. Volinsky; conference presentation, 2020 (announcing the npregderiv R package). Hosts Elena and Marcus. AI-generated voices.

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