Smothing Spline Estimation for Nonparametric Model of Longitudinal Data

In the last few decades, longitudinal data was deeply research in statistics science and widely used in many field, such as finance, medical science, agriculture and so on. The characteristic of longitudinal data is that the values are independent from different samples but they are correlate from one sample. Many nonparametric estimation methods were applied into longitudinal data models with development of computer technology. Using Cholesky decomposition and Profile least squares estimation, we will propose a effective spline estimation method pointing at nonparametric model of longitudinal data with covariance matrix unknown in this paper. Finally, we point that the new proposed method is more superior than Naive spline estimation in the covariance matrix is unknown case by comparing the simulated results of one example.