The data smoothing aspect of Stein estimates is explored in the nonparametric regression settings. We show that appropriately shrinking the raw data towards any linear smoother will provide a robust "smoother" (which dominates the raw data and hence has a bounded maximum risk when the average squared error loss is concerned).
@article{1176346709,
author = {Li, Ker-Chau and Hwang, Jiunn Tzon},
title = {The Data-Smoothing Aspect of Stein Estimates},
journal = {Ann. Statist.},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
year = {1984},
pages = { 887-897},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1176346709}
}
Li, Ker-Chau; Hwang, Jiunn Tzon. The Data-Smoothing Aspect of Stein Estimates. Ann. Statist., Tome 12 (1984) no. 1, pp. 887-897. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1176346709/