Online Generalized Additive Model

Abstract: Additive models and generalized additive models are effective semiparametric tools for multidimensional data. In this article we propose an online smoothing backfitting method for generalized additive models with local polynomial smoothers. The main idea is to use a second order expansion to approximate the nonlinear integral equations to maximize the local quasilikelihood and store the coefficients as the sufficient statistics which can be updated in an online manner by a dynamic candidate bandwidth method. The updating procedure only depends on the stored sufficient statistics and the current data block. We derive the asymptotic normality as well as the relative efficiency lower bounds of the online estimates, which provides insight into the relationship between estimation accuracy and computational cost driven by the length of candidate bandwidth sequence. Simulations and real data examples are provided to validate our findings.