Comparative Analysis for Robust Penalized Spline Smoothing Methods

Figure 1

Spline regression curves (with true testing function in black solid line) from the penalized LS fitting (blue dotted), 𝑀-estimator (green dot-dashed), and 𝑆-estimator (red dashed) for the simulated samples (black circle-dot) in 9 possible scenarios.

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