Mathematics – Statistics Theory
Scientific paper
2008-09-04
Mathematics
Statistics Theory
Scientific paper
We consider the problem of pointwise estimation of multi-dimensional signals $s$, from noisy observations $(y_\tau)$ on the regular grid $\bZd$. Our focus is on the adaptive estimation in the case when the signal can be well recovered using a (hypothetical) linear filter, which can depend on the unknown signal itself. The basic setting of the problem we address here can be summarized as follows: suppose that the signal $s$ is "well-filtered", i.e. there exists an adapted time-invariant linear filter $q^*_T$ with the coefficients which vanish outside the "cube" $\{0,..., T\}^d$ which recovers $s_0$ from observations with small mean-squared error. We suppose that we do not know the filter $q^*$, although, we do know that such a filter exists. We give partial answers to the following questions: -- is it possible to construct an adaptive estimator of the value $s_0$, which relies upon observations and recovers $s_0$ with basically the same estimation error as the unknown filter $q^*_T$? -- how rich is the family of well-filtered (in the above sense) signals? We show that the answer to the first question is affirmative and provide a numerically efficient construction of a nonlinear adaptive filter. Further, we establish a simple calculus of "well-filtered" signals, and show that their family is quite large: it contains, for instance, sampled smooth signals, sampled modulated smooth signals and sampled harmonic functions.
Juditsky Anatoli
Nemirovski Arkadii S.
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