Often, regression models that appear nonlinear upon first glance are actually linear. The curve estimation procedure can be used to identify the nature of the functional relationships at play in ...

Nonparametric Regression: A statistical method that does not assume a specific parametric form for the relationship between the dependent and independent variables.

In this paper, we propose a functional linear regression model in the space of probability density functions. We treat a cross-sectional distribution of individual earnings as an infinite dimensional ...