Estimation of a discrete probability under constraint of k-monotonicity

DOI10.1214/16-EJS1220zbMATH Open1357.62164arXiv1608.06541MaRDI QIDQ502850FDOQ502850

Authors: Jade Giguelay 

Publication date: 11 January 2017

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose two least-squares estimators of a discrete probability under the constraint of k-monotony and study their statistical properties. We give a characterization of these estimators based on the decomposition on a spline basis of k-monotone sequences. We develop an algorithm derived from the Support Reduction Algorithm and we finally present a simulation study to illustrate their properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06541

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30)

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