Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 34, No. 150 (Apr., 1980), pp. 441-463 (23 pages) Constructive proofs and several generalizations of approximation results of J. H. Bramble and S. R. Hilbert are ...

We investigate the extension of the nonparametric regression technique of local polynomial fitting with a kernel weight to generalized linear models and quasi-likelihood contexts. In the ordinary ...