Simulation-based two-stage estimation for multiple nonparametric regression

Lu Lin, Qi Zhang, Feng Li and Xia Cui

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2011, vol. 55, issue 3, 1367-1378

Abstract: To reduce the curse of dimensionality arising from nonparametric estimation procedures for multiple nonparametric regression, in this paper we suggest a simulation-based two-stage estimation. We first introduce a simulation-based method to decompose the multiple nonparametric regression into two parts. The first part can be estimated with the parametric convergence rate and the second part is small enough so that it can be approximated by orthogonal basis functions with a small trade-off parameter. Then the linear combination of the first and second step estimators results in a two-stage estimator for the multiple regression function. Our method does not need any specified structural assumption on the regression function and it is proved that the newly proposed estimation is always consistent even if the trade-off parameter is designed to be small. Thus when the common nonparametric estimator such as local linear smoothing collapses because of the curse of dimensionality, our estimator still works well.

Keywords: Multiple; nonparametric; regression; Simulation-based; method; Two-stage; estimation; Convergence; rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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