A robust and efficient estimation method for single-index varying-coefficient models

A new estimation procedure based on modal regression is proposed for single-index varying-coefficient models. The proposed method achieves better robustness and efficiency than that of Xue and Pang (2013). We establish the asymptotic normalities of proposed estimators and evaluate the performance of the proposed method by a numerical simulation.

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