Local M-estimation with discontinuous criterion for dependent and limited observations

DOI10.1214/17-AOS1552zbMATH Open1394.62058arXiv1610.02753OpenAlexW2530688106MaRDI QIDQ1747741FDOQ1747741

Myung Hwan Seo, Taisuke Otsu

Publication date: 27 April 2018

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper examines asymptotic properties of local M-estimators under three sets of high-level conditions. These conditions are sufficiently general to cover the minimum volume predictive region, conditional maximum score estimator for a panel data discrete choice model, and many other widely used estimators in statistics and econometrics. Specifically, they allow for discontinuous criterion functions of weakly dependent observations, which may be localized by kernel smoothing and contain nuisance parameters whose dimension may grow to infinity. Furthermore, the localization can occur around parameter values rather than around a fixed point and the observation may take limited values, which leads to set estimators. Our theory produces three different nonparametric cube root rates and enables valid inference for the local M-estimators, building on novel maximal inequalities for weakly dependent data. Our results include the standard cube root asymptotics as a special case. To illustrate the usefulness of our results, we verify our conditions for various examples such as the Hough transform estimator with diminishing bandwidth, maximum score-type set estimator, and many others.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02753

zbMATH Keywords

cube root asymptoticsmaximal inequalitypartial identificationmixing processparameter-dependent localization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17)

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