Minimax estimation with thresholding and its application to wavelet analysis

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2005-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/math/0504503v1

Annals of Statistics 2005, Vol. 33, No. 1, 101-125

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000977 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Inst

Scientific paper

10.1214/009053604000000977

Many statistical practices involve choosing between a full model and reduced models where some coefficients are reduced to zero. Data were used to select a model with estimated coefficients. Is it possible to do so and still come up with an estimator always better than the traditional estimator based on the full model? The James-Stein estimator is such an estimator, having a property called minimaxity. However, the estimator considers only one reduced model, namely the origin. Hence it reduces no coefficient estimator to zero or every coefficient estimator to zero. In many applications including wavelet analysis, what should be more desirable is to reduce to zero only the estimators smaller than a threshold, called thresholding in this paper. Is it possible to construct this kind of estimators which are minimax? In this paper, we construct such minimax estimators which perform thresholding. We apply our recommended estimator to the wavelet analysis and show that it performs the best among the well-known estimators aiming simultaneously at estimation and model selection. Some of our estimators are also shown to be asymptotically optimal.

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