Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22678 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Technical Report No. 2006,34
Publisher: 
Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen, Dortmund
Abstract: 
In this paper D-optimal designs for free knot least squares spline estimation are investigated. In contrast to most of the literature on optimal design for spline regression models it is assumed that the knots of the spline are also estimated from the data, which yields to optimal design problems for nonlinear models. In some cases local D-optimal designs can be found explicitly. Moreover, it is shown that the points of minimally supported D-optimal designs are increasing and real analytic functions of the knots and these results are used for the numerical construction of local D-optimal designs by means of Taylor expansions. In order to obtain optimal designs which are less sensitive with respect to a specification of the unknown knots a maximin approach is proposed and standardized maximin D-optimal designs for least square splines with estimated knots are determined in the class of all minimally supported designs.
Subjects: 
Free knot least squares splines
D-optimal designs
nonlinear models
local optimal designs
robust designs
saturated designs
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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