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Jackknife model averaging, with jeffrey racine, journal of econometrics, 2012 abstract and pdf file. The two central problems discussed are the choice of smoothing parameter and the construction of con dence bands in practice. Applied nonparametric instrumental variables estimation. It is accessible to graduate students and applied researchers who are familiar with econometric and statistical theory at the level taught in graduate. The focus will be nonparametric methods in econometrics. Hansen 2000, 20201 university of wisconsin department of economics this revision. The np package while section6considers conditional pdf and cdf estimation, and nonparametric estimators of quantile models are considered in section7. Explains that nonparametric and parametric estimators differ in ways that are important for applied research.