Partially Linear Additive Regression with a General Hilbertian Response¹

In this paper we develop semiparametric regression techniques for fitting partially linear additive models. The methods are for a general Hilbert-space-valued response. They use a powerful technique of additive regression in profiling out the additive nonparametric components of the models, which necessarily involves additive regression of the non-additive effects of covariates. We show that the estimators of the parametric components are n-consistent and asymptotically Gaussian under weak conditions. We also prove that the estimators of the nonparametric components, which are random elements taking values in a space of Hilbert-space-valued maps, achieve the univariate rate of convergence regardless of the dimension of covariates. We present some numerical evidence for the success of the proposed method and discuss real data applications.