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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Biometrika Trust is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Biometrika. SUMMARY A nonparametric estimator of residual variance in nonlinear regression is proposed.It is based on local linear fitting. Asymptotically the estimator has a small bias, but a larger variance compared with the parametric estimator in linear regression. Finite sample properties are investigated in a simulation study, including a comparison with other nonparametric estimators. The method is also useful for spotting heteroscedasticity and outliers in the residuals at an early stage of the data analysis. A further application is checking the fit of parametric models. This is illustrated for longitudinal growth data.

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