Mathematics – Statistics Theory
Scientific paper
2006-02-11
Annals of Statistics 2005, Vol. 33, No. 5, 2228-2255
Mathematics
Statistics Theory
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053605000000462 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Inst
Scientific paper
10.1214/009053605000000462
We investigate the limit behavior of the $L_k$-distance between a decreasing density $f$ and its nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator $\hat{f}_n$ for $k\geq1$. Due to the inconsistency of $\hat{f}_n$ at zero, the case $k=2.5$ turns out to be a kind of transition point. We extend asymptotic normality of the $L_1$-distance to the $L_k$-distance for $1\leq k<2.5$, and obtain the analogous limiting result for a modification of the $L_k$-distance for $k\geq2.5$. Since the $L_1$-distance is the area between $f$ and $\hat{f}_n$, which is also the area between the inverse $g$ of $f$ and the more tractable inverse $U_n$ of $\hat{f}_n$, the problem can be reduced immediately to deriving asymptotic normality of the $L_1$-distance between $U_n$ and $g$. Although we lose this easy correspondence for $k>1$, we show that the $L_k$-distance between $f$ and $\hat{f}_n$ is asymptotically equivalent to the $L_k$-distance between $U_n$ and $g$.
Kulikov Vladimir N.
Lopuhaä Hendrik P.
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