Mellin-Meijer kernel density estimation on R^+

DOI10.1007/S10463-020-00772-1MaRDI QIDQ2230876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gery Geenens

Publication date 28 September 2021

Published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04301

zbMATH Keywords

Mellin transformkernel density estimatorasymmetric kernelsMeijer \(G\)-functionsboundary issues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

Abstract: Nonparametric kernel density estimation is a very natural procedure which simply makes use of the smoothing power of the convolution operation. Yet, it performs poorly when the density of a positive variable is to be estimated (boundary issues, spurious bumps in the tail). So various extensions of the basic kernel estimator allegedly suitable for $mathbb{R}^{+}$-supported densities, such as those using Gamma or other asymmetric kernels, abound in the literature. Those, however, are not based on any valid smoothing operation analogous to the convolution, which typically leads to inconsistencies. By contrast, in this paper a kernel estimator for $mathbb{R}^{+}$-supported densities is defined by making use of the Mellin convolution, the natural analogue of the usual convolution on $mathbb{R}^{+}$. From there, a very transparent theory flows and leads to new type of asymmetric kernels strongly related to Meijer's $G$-functions. The numerous pleasant properties of this `Mellin-Meijer-kernel density estimator' are demonstrated in the paper. Its pointwise and $L_2$-consistency (with optimal rate of convergence) is established for a large class of densities, including densities unbounded at 0 and showing power-law decay in their right tail. Its practical behaviour is investigated further through simulations and some real data analyses.

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