Asymptotic analysis of the jittering kernel density estimator

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.1705.05431MaRDI QIDQ96450zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Nagler

Publication date 15 May 2017

Published in Mathematical Methods of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05431

zbMATH Keywords

densitydiscretejitteringkernelminimaxmixed data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12)

Abstract: Jittering estimators are nonparametric function estimators for mixed data. They extend arbitrary estimators from the continuous setting by adding random noise to discrete variables. We give an in-depth analysis of the jittering kernel density estimator, which reveals several appealing properties. The estimator is strongly consistent, asymptotically normal, and unbiased for discrete variables. It converges at minimax-optimal rates, which are established as a by-product of our analysis. To understand the effect of adding noise, we further study its asymptotic efficiency and finite sample bias in the univariate discrete case. Simulations show that the estimator is competitive on finite samples. The analysis suggests that similar properties can be expected for other jittering estimators.

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