Adaptive nonparametric density estimation with missing observations |
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Authors: | Sam Efromovich |
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Institution: | The University of Texas at Dallas, United States |
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Abstract: | It is well known that if some observations in a sample from the probability density are not available, then in general the density cannot be estimated. A possible remedy is to use an auxiliary variable that explains the missing mechanism. For this setting a data-driven estimator is proposed that mimics performance of an oracle that knows all observations from the sample. It is also proved that the estimator adapts to unknown smoothness of the density and its mean integrated squared error converges with a minimax rate. A numerical study, together with the analysis of a real data, shows that the estimator is feasible for small samples. |
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Keywords: | MISE MAR Oracle inequality |
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