“…Caroll and Hall (1988), Comte, Rozenholc, and Taupin (2006), Delaigle and Gijbels (2006), Fan (1991), Fan and Liu (1997), Fan and Koo (2002), Hall and Qiu (2005), Lacour (2006) and Pensky and Vidakovic (1999), to mention just a few. Since the independent assumption on (Y v ) v∈Z is not realistic for some applications, several authors have investigated the dependent case.…”