Preliminary control variates to improve empirical regression methods

Abstract. We design a variance reduction method to reduce the estimation error in regression problems. It is based on an appropriate use of other known regression functions. Theoretical estimates are supporting this improvement and numerical experiments are illustrating the efficiency of the method.

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