The Conference on Function Estimates was held at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California ... sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsT.p. verso.

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Logspline density estimation ; Statistical encounters with plines ; Estimation of a transfer function in a nonGaussian context ; Evaluating the performance of an inversion algorithm ; Harmonic splines in geomagnetism ; Problems in estimating the anomalous gravity potential of the Earth from discrete spatial data ; What regression model should be chosen when the statistician misspecifies the error distribution? ; Approximation theory of method of regularization estimators: applications ; Partial spline modelling of the tropopause and other discontinuities ; Choice of Smoothing Parameter in Deconvolution Problems ; Regression approximation using projections and isotropic kernels ; Will the art of smoothing ever become a science? Charles J Stone and ChaYong Koo ; Wolfgang Dahmen and Charles A Micchelli ; K S Lii and M Rosenblatt ; Finbarr O'Sullivan ; Robert L Parker ; K P Schwarz ; Wolfgang Hardle ; Dennis D Cox ; Grace Wahba ; John A Rice ; David L Donoho and Iain M Johnstone ; J S Marron