Regression Design for Some Equivalence Classes of Kernels

Tn = tl < t2 < ... < t", ti e T} so that the variance Y2 of the Gauss-Markov estimate of 0 given {Y(t), t e T"} is as small as possible. This problem has been considered by Sacks and Ylvisaker, Wahba, and Hajek and Kimeldorf [3], [11], [12], [13], [14], [16] for various special cases of Q. It is known that a2T is bounded away from 0 as A = maxz jt+,-t4 tends to 0 if and only if f e Q, where Q is the unique reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) with reproducing kernel (RK)Q, see [8]. It will be assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic properties of RKHS as given in [8], [16], see also [1].