Mathematics – Statistics Theory
Scientific paper
2010-10-19
Annals of Statistics 2010, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1953-1977
Mathematics
Statistics Theory
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOS777 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of
Scientific paper
10.1214/09-AOS777
In this paper, we investigate the (in)-consistency of different bootstrap methods for constructing confidence intervals in the class of estimators that converge at rate $n^{1/3}$. The Grenander estimator, the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of an unknown nonincreasing density function $f$ on $[0,\infty)$, is a prototypical example. We focus on this example and explore different approaches to constructing bootstrap confidence intervals for $f(t_0)$, where $t_0\in(0,\infty)$ is an interior point. We find that the bootstrap estimate, when generating bootstrap samples from the empirical distribution function $\mathbb{F}_n$ or its least concave majorant $\tilde{F}_n$, does not have any weak limit in probability. We provide a set of sufficient conditions for the consistency of any bootstrap method in this example and show that bootstrapping from a smoothed version of $\tilde{F}_n$ leads to strongly consistent estimators. The $m$ out of $n$ bootstrap method is also shown to be consistent while generating samples from $\mathbb{F}_n$ and $\tilde{F}_n$.
Banerjee Moulinath
Sen Bodhisattva
Woodroofe Michael
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