In this paper, we used many forms of kernel functions with minimum average variance estimation (MAVE) method [Xia2002] we called the proposed methods (MAVE-Biweight), (MAVE-Epanechnikov ) and .(MAVE-Gaussian ) for estimation the parameters and the link function of the single – index model (SIM) comparing with other methods of estimation . to evaluate the performing of the various methods s simulation and a real data have been used, conclusions showed that the (MAVE- Gaussian) method in this

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... r gave better results compared with other methods depending on the mean squared error (MSE) and mean Absolute error (MAE) criterion for comparison.