Box-constrained monotone approximations to Lipschitz regularizations, with applications to robust testing

DOI10.1007/S10957-020-01743-5MaRDI QIDQ831360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eustasio Del Barrio, Hristo Inouzhe, Carlos Matrán

Publication date 11 May 2021

Published in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08573

zbMATH Keywords

robustnessKolmogorov distancedistribution functiondirectional differentiabilityLipschitz regularizationcontamination neighbourhoodsLipschitz-continuous approximationsPasch-Hausdorff envelopestrimmed probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Lipschitz (Hölder) classes (26A16) Existence of optimal solutions to problems involving randomness (49J55) Approximation with constraints (41A29)

Abstract: Tests of fit to exact models in statistical analysis often lead to rejections even when the model is a useful approximate description of the random generator of the data. Among possible relaxations of a fixed model, the one defined by contamination neighbourhoods, namely, $mathcal{V}_{a}lpha(P_0)=(1-alpha)P_0+alphaQ:QinmathcalP$, where $mathcalP$ is the set of all probabilities in the sample space, has received much attention, from its central role in Robust Statistics. For probabilities on the real line, consistent tests of fit to $mathcal{V}_{a}lpha(P_0)$ can be based on $d_K(P_0,R_{a}lpha(P))$, the minimal Kolmogorov distance between $P_0$ and the set of trimmings of $P$, $$. We show that this functional admits equivalent formulations in terms of, either best approximation in uniform norm by $L$-Lipschitz functions satisfying a box constraint, or as the best monotone approximation in uniform norm to the $L$-Lipschitz regularization, which is seen to be expressable in terms of the average of the Pasch-Hausdorff envelopes. This representation for the solution of the variational problem allows to obtain results showing stability of the functional $d_K(P_0,R_{a}lpha(P))$, as well as directional differentiability, providing the basis for a Central Limit Theorem for that functional.

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