• A computational validation for nonparametric assessment of spatial trends 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Fernández-Casal, Rubén; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M.; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (2021)
      The analysis of continuously spatially varying processes usually considers two sources of variation, namely, the large-scale variation collected by the trend of the process, and the small-scale variation. Parametric trend ...
    • A goodness-of-fit test for regression models with spatially correlated errors 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Opsomer, Jean; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M. (2020)
      The problem of assessing a parametric regression model in the presence of spatial correlation is addressed in this work. For that purpose, a goodness-of-fit test based on a -distance comparing a parametric and nonparametric ...
    • Analysis of interval‐grouped data in weed science: The binnednp Rcpp package 

      Barreiro-Ures, Daniel; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Cao, Ricardo; Fraguela, Basilio B.; Doallo, Ramón; González-Andújar, José Luis; Reyes, Miguel (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019-09-13)
      [Abstract] Weed scientists are usually interested in the study of the distribution and density functions of the random variable that relates weed emergence with environmental indices like the hydrothermal time (HTT). ...
    • Automatic detection of defective crankshafts by image analysis and supervised classification 

      Remeseiro, Beatriz; Tarrío-Saavedra, Javier; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Penedo, Manuel; Naya, Salvador; Cao, Ricardo (2019)
      [Abstract]: A crankshaft is a mechanical component of an engine that performs a conversion of an alternative movement of a piston in a rotational motion of a shaft. It is a critical part and one of the most expensive of ...
    • Bagging cross-validated bandwidths with application to big data 

      Barreiro-Ures, Daniel; Cao, Ricardo; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Hart, Jeffrey D. (2021)
      Hall & Robinson (2009) proposed and analysed the use of bagged cross-validation to choose the band-width of a kernel density estimator. They established that bagging greatly reduces the noise inherent in ordinary ...
    • Goodness-of-fit tests for multiple regression with circular response 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M. (2022)
      [Abstract]: Testing procedures for assessing a parametric regression model with a circular response and an Rd-valued covariate are proposed and analysed in this work. The test statistics are based on a circular distance ...
    • Kernel distribution estimation for grouped data 

      Reyes, Miguel; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Cao, Ricardo; Barreiro-Ures, Daniel (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2019)
      [Abstract]: Interval-grouped data appear when the observations are not obtained in continuous time, but monitored in periodical time instants. In this framework, a nonparametric kernel distribution esti- mator is proposed ...
    • Local polynomial regression estimation with correlated errors 

      Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Vilar, Juan M. (Taylor & Francis, 2001)
      In this paper, we study the nonparametric estimation of the regression function and its derivatives using weighted local polynomial fitting. Consider the fixed regression model and suppose that the random observation ...
    • Local polynomial regression smoothers with AR-error structure 

      Vilar, Juan M.; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (Springer, 2002)
      Consider the fixed regression model with random observation error that follows an AR(1) correlation structure. In this paper, we study the nonparametric estimation of the regression function and its derivatives using a ...
    • Nonparametric estimation of the conditional variance function with correlated errors 

      Vilar, Juan M.; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (Taylor & Francis, 2006)
    • Nonparametric Conditional Risk Mapping Under Heteroscedasticity 

      Fernández-Casal, Rubén; Castillo-Páez, Sergio; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (Springer Nature, 2024-03)
      [Absctract]: A nonparametric procedure to estimate the conditional probability that a nonstationary geostatistical process exceeds a certain threshold value is proposed. The method consists of a bootstrap algorithm that ...
    • Nonparametric estimation for a functional-circular regression model 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M.; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (Springer, 2024)
      [Abstract]: Changes on temperature patterns, on a local scale, are perceived by individuals as the most direct indicators of global warming and climate change. As a specific example, for an Atlantic climate location, spring ...
    • Nonparametric estimation of circular trend surfaces with application to wave directions 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M.; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (2021)
      In oceanography, modeling wave fields requires the use of statistical tools capable of handling the circular nature of the data measurements. An important issue in ocean wave analysis is the study of height and direction ...
    • Nonparametric geostatistical risk mapping 

      Fernández-Casal, Rubén; Castillo-Páez, Sergio; Francisco-Fernández, Mario (2018)
      In this work, a fully nonparametric geostatistical approach to estimate threshold exceeding probabilities is proposed. To estimate the large-scale variability (spatial trend) of the process, the nonparametric local linear ...
    • Nonparametric multiple regression estimation for circular response 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M.; Panzera, Agnese (2021)
      Nonparametric estimators of a regression function with circular response and -valued predictor are considered in this work. Local polynomial estimators are proposed and studied. Expressions for the asymptotic conditional ...
    • Nonparametric Regression Estimation for Circular Data 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M.; Panzera, Agnese (M D P I AG, 2019-07-31)
      [Abstract] Non-parametric regression with a circular response variable and a unidimensional linear regressor is a topic which was discussed in the literature. In this work, we extend the results to the case of multivariate ...
    • On the uniform strong consistency of local polynomial regression under dependence conditions 

      Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Vilar, Juan M.; Vilar, José (Taylor & Francis, 2003)
      [Abstract] In this paper, nonparametric estimators of the regression function, and its derivatives, obtained by means of weighted local polynomial fitting are studied. Consider the fixed regression model where the error ...
    • River flow modelling using nonparametric functional data analysis 

      Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Quintela-del-Río, Alejandro (John Wiley & Sons Ltd and The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), 2018)
      [Abstract]: Time series and extreme value analyses are two statistical approaches usually applied to study hydrological data. Classical techniques, such as autoregressive integrated moving-average models (in the case of ...
    • Testing goodness-of-fit of parametric spatial Trends 

      Meilán-Vila, Andrea; Opsomer, Jean; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; Crujeiras-Casais, Rosa M. (M D P I AG, 2018-09-17)
      [Abstract] The aim of this work is to propose and analyze the behavior of a test statistic to assess a parametric trend surface, that is, a regression model with spatially correlated errors. The asymptotic behavior under ...
    • TTS package: Computational tools for the application of the Time Temperature Superposition principle 

      Meneses Freire, Antonio; Naya, Salvador; Francisco-Fernández, Mario; López-Beceiro, Jorge; Gracia-Fernández, Carlos; Tarrío-Saavedra, Javier (Elsevier, 2023)
      [Abstract]: The TTS package has been developed in R software to predict the mechanical properties of viscoelastic materials, at short and long observation times/frequencies by applying the Time Temperature Superposition ...