Efficient estimation in semivarying coefficient models for longitudinal/clustered data
纵向与聚类数据半变系数模型的有效估计
In semivarying coefficient modeling of longitudinal/clustered data, of primary interest is usually the parametric component which involves unknown constant coefficients. First, we study semiparametric efficiency bound for estimation of the constant coefficients in a general setup. It can be achieved by spline regression using the true within-subject covariance matrices, which are often unavailable in reality. Thus, we propose an estimator when the covariance matrices are…