Smoothness in Bayesian Non-parametric Regression with Wavelets

Marco Di Zio () and Arnoldo Frigessi ()
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Marco Di Zio: ISTAT
Arnoldo Frigessi: Norwegian Computing Center

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 1999, vol. 1, issue 4, 391-405

Abstract: Abstract Consider the classical nonparametric regression problem yi = f(ti) + ɛii = 1,...,n where ti = i/n, and ɛi are i.i.d. zero mean normal with variance σ2. The aim is to estimate the true function f which is assumed to belong to the smoothness class described by the Besov space B pq q . These are functions belonging to Lp with derivatives up to order s, in Lp sense. The parameter q controls a further finer degree of smoothness. In a Bayesian setting, a prior on B pq q is chosen following Abramovich, Sapatinas and Silverman (1998). We show that the optimal Bayesian estimator of f is then also a.s. in B pq q if the loss function is chosen to be the Besov norm of B pq q . Because it is impossible to compute this optimal Bayesian estimator analytically, we propose a stochastic algorithm based on an approximation of the Bayesian risk and simulated annealing. Some simulations are presented to show that the algorithm performs well and that the new estimator is competitive when compared to the more standard posterior mean.

Keywords: Besov space; loss function; mixture prior; optimal Bayesian estimator; simulated annealing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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