Weak conditions for shrinking multivariate nonparametric density estimators

Alessio Sancetta

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2013, vol. 115, issue C, 285-300

Abstract: Nonparametric density estimators on RK may fail to be consistent when the sample size n does not grow fast enough relative to reduction in smoothing. For example a Gaussian kernel estimator with bandwidths proportional to some sequence hn is not consistent if nhnK fails to diverge to infinity. The paper studies shrinkage estimators in this scenario and shows that we can still meaningfully use–in a sense to be specified in the paper–a nonparametric density estimator in high dimensions, even when it is not asymptotically consistent. Due to the “curse of dimensionality”, this framework is quite relevant to many practical problems. In this context, unlike other studies, the reason to shrink towards a possibly misspecified low dimensional parametric estimator is not to improve on the bias, but to reduce the estimation error.

Keywords: Integrated square error; Kolmogorov asymptotics; Nonparametric estimation; Parametric model; Shrinkage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2012.09.009

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