Linear and convex aggregation of density estimators
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Publication:734530
DOI10.3103/S1066530707030052zbMATH Open1231.62057arXivmath/0605292OpenAlexW2101675718MaRDI QIDQ734530FDOQ734530
Philippe Rigollet, Alexandre B. Tsybakov
Publication date: 13 October 2009
Published in: Mathematical Methods of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the problem of linear and convex aggregation of estimators of a density with respect to the mean squared risk. We provide procedures for linear and convex aggregation and we prove oracle inequalities for their risks. We also obtain lower bounds showing that these procedures are rate optimal in a minimax sense. As an example, we apply general results to aggregation of multivariate kernel density estimators with different bandwidths. We show that linear and convex aggregates mimic the kernel oracles in asymptotically exact sense for a large class of kernels including Gaussian, Silverman's and Pinsker's ones. We prove that, for Pinsker's kernel, the proposed aggregates are sharp asymptotically minimax simultaneously over a large scale of Sobolev classes of densities. Finally, we provide simulations demonstrating performance of the convex aggregation procedure.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605292
Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15)
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