On the le Cam distance between Poisson and Gaussian experiments and the asymptotic properties of Szasz estimators

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2021.125033MaRDI QIDQ2660486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frédéric Ouimet

Publication date 30 March 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05146

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributiondistribution function estimationlocal limit theoremdeficiencyBernstein estimatorcomparison of experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Functional data analysis (62R10)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove a local limit theorem for the ratio of the Poisson distribution to the Gaussian distribution with the same mean and variance, using only elementary methods (Taylor expansions and Stirling's formula). We then apply the result to derive an upper bound on the Le Cam distance between Poisson and Gaussian experiments, which gives a complete proof of the sketch provided in the unpublished set of lecture notes by Pollard (2010), who uses a different approach. We also use the local limit theorem to derive the asymptotics of the variance for Bernstein c.d.f. and density estimators with Poisson weights on the positive half-line (also called Szasz estimators). The propagation of errors in the literature due to the incorrect estimate in Lemma 2 (iv) of Leblanc (2012) is addressed in the Appendix.

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