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Convergence rates in nonparametric estimation of level sets

Amparo Baíllo, Juan A. Cuesta-Albertos and Antonio Cuevas

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2001, vol. 53, issue 1, 27-35

Abstract: A level set of type {f[less-than-or-equals, slant]c} (where f is a density on and c is a positive value) can be estimated by its empirical version , where denotes a nonparametric (kernel) density estimator. We analyze, from two different points of view, the asymptotic behavior of the probability content of . Our results are motivated by applications in cluster analysis and outlier detection. Although the mathematical treatment is quite different in both cases, the conclusions are basically coincident. Roughly speaking, we show that the convergence rates are at most of type n-1/(d+2). For the univariate case d=1 this would be in the same spirit of the classical cube-root results found in some nonparametric setups.

Keywords: Convergence; rates; Level; sets; Set; estimation; False; alarm; probability; Kernel; density; estimates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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