Adaptive estimation of stationary Gaussian fields

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DOI10.1214/09-AOS751zbMATH Open1189.62157arXiv0901.2212MaRDI QIDQ973870FDOQ973870


Authors: Nicolas Verzelen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 May 2010

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the nonparametric covariance estimation of a stationary Gaussian field X observed on a regular lattice. In the time series setting, some procedures like AIC are proved to achieve optimal model selection among autoregressive models. However, there exists no such equivalent results of adaptivity in a spatial setting. By considering collections of Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRF) as approximation sets for the distribution of X, we introduce a novel model selection procedure for spatial fields. For all neighborhoods m in a given collection M, this procedure first amounts to computing a covariance estimator of X within the GMRFs of neighborhood m. Then, it selects a neighborhood by applying a penalization strategy. The so-defined method satisfies a nonasymptotic oracle type inequality. If X is a GMRF, the procedure is also minimax adaptive to the sparsity of its neighborhood. More generally, the procedure is adaptive to the rate of approximation of the true distribution by GMRFs with growing neighborhoods.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2212




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