Monotone Smoothing with Application to Dose-Response Curve

Motivated by problems that arise in dose-response curve estimation, we developed a new method to estimate a monotone curve. The resulting monotone estimator is obtained by combining techniques from smoothing splines with nonnegativity properties of cubic B-splines. Numerical experiments are given to exemplify the method.

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