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Statistics 526C Term 2 2005-6 Smoothing Methods/Functional Data Analysis: Homework Homework 1: due tentatively Tues Jan 24 pages 0-2 and 0-13 of Nadaraya-Watson Jan 10 lecture notes. Homework 2: due Fri Feb 3: last two pages of local polynomial Jan 19-24 lecture notes. Homework 3: due Fri Feb 10: using cross-validation and locpoly HW3 Homework 4: due Fri Mar 3: using least-squares type PCA on mice body masses (data file to be sent to individuals) HW4 Homework 5: due Fri Mar 17: hat matrix with penalized regression splines, monotone Bsplines: on last two pages of Mar 3 notes