Title
The Reconstruction Approach: From Interpolation To Regression
Abstract
This article introduces an interpolation-based method, called the reconstruction approach, for nonparametric regression. Based on the fact that interpolation usually has negligible errors compared to statistical estimation, the reconstruction approach uses an interpolator to parameterize the regression function with its values at finite knots, and then estimates these values by (regularized) least squares. Some popular methods including kernel ridge regression can be viewed as its special cases. It is shown that the reconstruction idea not only provides different angles to look into existing methods, but also produces new effective experimental design and estimation methods for nonparametric models. In particular, for some methods of complexity O(n(3)), where n is the sample size, this approach provides effective surrogates with much less computational burden. This point makes it very suitable for large datasets. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1080/00401706.2020.1764869
TECHNOMETRICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Gaussian process regression, Kernel method, Kriging, Smoothing
Journal
63
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0040-1706
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shifeng Xiong100.34