Simply Ordered Case
To illustrate the above, let, and, and .
The isotonic estimator, minimizes the weighted least squares-like condition:
Where is the unknown function we are estimating, and is a known function.
Software has been developed in the R statistical package for computing isotone (monotonic) regression.
Read more about this topic: Isotonic Regression
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