SPADES and mixture models

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Abstract: This paper studies sparse density estimation via ell1 penalization (SPADES). We focus on estimation in high-dimensional mixture models and nonparametric adaptive density estimation. We show, respectively, that SPADES can recover, with high probability, the unknown components of a mixture of probability densities and that it yields minimax adaptive density estimates. These results are based on a general sparsity oracle inequality that the SPADES estimates satisfy. We offer a data driven method for the choice of the tuning parameter used in the construction of SPADES. The method uses the generalized bisection method first introduced in citebb09. The suggested procedure bypasses the need for a grid search and offers substantial computational savings. We complement our theoretical results with a simulation study that employs this method for approximations of one and two-dimensional densities with mixtures. The numerical results strongly support our theoretical findings.



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