%0 Journal Article %@ 0378-3758 %A Mammen, Enno %A Park, Byeong U. %C Amsterdam %D 1997 %F heidok:20872 %I North-Holland Publ. Co. %J Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference %K Adaptive estimation; Bandwith; Kernel function; Semi-parametric location model %N 2 %P 333-348 %R 10.11588/heidok.00020872 %T Optimal Smoothing in Adaptive Location Estimation %U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20872/ %V 58 %X In this paper higher order performance of kernel basedadaptive location estimators are considered. Optimalchoice of smoothing parameters is discussed and it isshown how much is lossed in efficiency by not knowingthe underlying translation density.