Minimax theory for a class of nonlinear statistical inverse problems

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/32/6/065003zbMATH Open1346.65003arXiv1512.00218OpenAlexW3106006725MaRDI QIDQ5739780FDOQ5739780

Authors: Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber 

Publication date: 20 July 2016

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a class of statistical inverse problems with non-linear pointwise operators motivated by concrete statistical applications. A two-step procedure is proposed, where the first step smoothes the data and inverts the non-linearity. This reduces the initial non-linear problem to a linear inverse problem with deterministic noise, which is then solved in a second step. The noise reduction step is based on wavelet thresholding and is shown to be minimax optimal (up to logarithmic factors) in a pointwise function-dependent sense. Our analysis is based on a modified notion of H"older smoothness scales that are natural in this setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00218

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zbMATH Keywords

waveletsnonparametric regressionthresholdingadaptive estimationnonlinear statistical inverse problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Numerical methods for wavelets (65T60)

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