Multivariate log-concave distributions as a nearly parametric model

DOI10.1524/STND.2011.1073zbMATH Open1245.62060arXiv0907.0250OpenAlexW2951806534MaRDI QIDQ3104435FDOQ3104435

Authors: Dominic Schuhmacher, André Hüsler, Lutz Dümbgen 

Publication date: 19 December 2011

Published in: Statistics & Risk Modeling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we show that the family P_d of probability distributions on R^d with log-concave densities satisfies a strong continuity condition. In particular, it turns out that weak convergence within this family entails (i) convergence in total variation distance, (ii) convergence of arbitrary moments, and (iii) pointwise convergence of Laplace transforms. Hence the nonparametric model P_d has similar properties as parametric models such as, for instance, the family of all d-variate Gaussian distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0250

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zbMATH Keywords

total variationmomentslog-concavityLaplace transformsweak continuityconfidence sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15)

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• LogConcDEAD

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