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We introduce a consistent estimator for the homology (an algebraic structure representing connected components and cycles) of level sets of both density and regression functions. Our method is based ...

Standard techniques for selecting the bandwidth of a kernel estimator from the data in a nonparametric regression model perform badly when the errors are correlated. In this paper we propose a ...