Estimating a monotone trend

Details Estimating a monotone trend Estimating a monotone trend

2008-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3188v1

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

20 pages

Scientific paper

Motivated by global warming issues, we consider a time se- ries that consists of a nondecreasing trend observed with station- ary fluctuations, nonparametric estimation of the trend under monotonicity assumption is considered. The rescaled isotonic es- timators at an interior point are shown to converge to Chernoff's distribution under minimal conditions on the stationary errors. Since the isotonic estimators suffer from the spiking problem at the end point, two modifications are proposed. The estima- tion errors for both estimators of the boundary point are shown to have interesting limiting distributions. Approximation accu- racies are assessed through simulations. One highlight of our treatment is the proof of the weak convergence results which involve several recent techniques developed in the study of con- ditional central limit questions. These weak convergences can be shown to hold conditionally given the starting values.

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