Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

Details Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

2008-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/0805.1406v3

Annals of Probability 2009, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1605-1646

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP447 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of

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10.1214/08-AOP447

Let $p_n(y)=\sum_k\hat{\alpha}_k\phi(y-k)+\sum_{l=0}^{j_n-1}\sum_k\hat {\beta}_{lk}2^{l/2}\psi(2^ly-k)$ be the linear wavelet density estimator, where $\phi$, $\psi$ are a father and a mother wavelet (with compact support), $\hat{\alpha}_k$, $\hat{\beta}_{lk}$ are the empirical wavelet coefficients based on an i.i.d. sample of random variables distributed according to a density $p_0$ on $\mathbb{R}$, and $j_n\in\mathbb{Z}$, $j_n\nearrow\infty$. Several uniform limit theorems are proved: First, the almost sure rate of convergence of $\sup_{y\in\mathbb{R}}|p_n(y)-Ep_n(y)|$ is obtained, and a law of the logarithm for a suitably scaled version of this quantity is established. This implies that $\sup_{y\in\mathbb{R}}|p_n(y)-p_0(y)|$ attains the optimal almost sure rate of convergence for estimating $p_0$, if $j_n$ is suitably chosen. Second, a uniform central limit theorem as well as strong invariance principles for the distribution function of $p_n$, that is, for the stochastic processes $\sqrt{n}(F_n ^W(s)-F(s))=\sqrt{n}\int_{-\infty}^s(p_n-p_0),s\in\mathbb{R}$, are proved; and more generally, uniform central limit theorems for the processes $\sqrt{n}\int(p_n-p_0)f$, $f\in\mathcal{F}$, for other Donsker classes $\mathcal{F}$ of interest are considered. As a statistical application, it is shown that essentially the same limit theorems can be obtained for the hard thresholding wavelet estimator introduced by Donoho et al. [Ann. Statist. 24 (1996) 508--539].

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