Nearest neighbor inverse regression

Abstract

Sliced inverse regression (SIR), formally introduced by Li, is a very general procedure for performing dimension reduction in nonparametric regression. This paper considers a version of SIR in which the "slices" are determined by nearest neighbors and the response variable takes value possibly in a multidimensional space. It is shown, under general conditions, that the "effective dimension reduction space" can be estimated with rate n-1/2 where n is the sample size.