Boundary kernels for adaptive density estimators on regions with irregular boundaries

In some applications of kernel density estimation the data may have a highly non-uniform distribution and be confined to a compact region. Standard fixed bandwidth density estimates can struggle to cope with the spatially variable smoothing requirements, and will be subject to excessive bias at the boundary of the region. While adaptive kernel estimators can address the first of these issues, the study of boundary kernel methods has been restricted to the fixed bandwidth context. We propose a new linear boundary kernel which reduces the asymptotic order of the bias of an adaptive density estimator at the boundary, and is simple to implement even on an irregular boundary. The properties of this adaptive boundary kernel are examined theoretically. In particular, we demonstrate that the asymptotic performance of the density estimator is maintained when the adaptive bandwidth is defined in terms of a pilot estimate rather than the true underlying density. We examine the performance for finite sample sizes numerically through analysis of simulated and real data sets.     

Transformation Kernel Density Estimation With Applications

One of the main objectives of this article is to derive efficient nonparametric estimators for an unknown density fX. It is well known that the ordinary kernel density estimator has, despite several good properties, some serious drawbacks. For example, it suffers from boundary bias and it also exhibits spurious bumps in the tails. We propose a semiparametric transformation kernel density estimator to overcome these defects. It is based on a new semiparametric transformation function that transforms data to normality. A generalized bandwidth adaptation procedure is also developed. It is found that the newly proposed semiparametric transformation kernel density estimator performs well for unimodal, low, and high kurtosis densities. Moreover, it detects and estimates densities with excessive curvature (e.g., modes and valleys) more effectively than existing procedures. In conclusion, practical examples based on real-life data are presented.     

A note on the universal consistency of the kernel distribution function estimator

The problem of universal consistency of data driven bandwidth selectors for the kernel distribution estimator is analyzed. We provide a uniform in bandwidth result for the kernel estimate of a continuous distribution function. Our smoothness assumption is minimal in the sense that if the true distribution function has some discontinuity then the kernel estimate is no longer consistent.     

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In the situation of \rho-mixing dependent sequences, this paper studied the mean square error and the optimal bandwidth of distribution kernel estimator nu_{p,h} of VaR. And the optimal bandwidth minimized the mean square error. The density function of Laplace distribution is used in the calculation of bandwidth and we adopt the method of interpolation to compute specific value of bandwidth in this paper. According to the numerical simulations, the distribution kernel estimator is more accurate by comparing the performance of VaR distribution kernel estimation with a common order statistic. Finally, Shangzheng A-share index and Shenzheng B-share index are chosen for an empirical research, which concludes that the risk of the latter is significantly higher than that of the former.     

On a nonparametric estimator for the finite time survival probability with zero initial surplus

In this paper, we consider the estimation of the finite time survival probability in the classical risk model when the initial surplus is zero. We construct a nonparametric estimator by Fourier inversion and kernel density estimation method. Under some mild assumptions imposed on the kernel, bandwidth and claim size density, we derive the order of the bias and variance, and show that the estimator has asymptotic normality property. Some simulation studies show that the estimator performs quite well in the finite sample setting.     

Rate of convergence of a convolution-type estimator of the marginal density of a MA(1) process

In this paper moving-average processes with no parametric assumption on the error distribution are considered. A new convolution-type estimator of the marginal density of a MA(1) is presented. This estimator is closely related to some previous ones used to estimate the integrated squared density and has a structure similar to the ordinary kernel density estimator. For second-order kernels, the rate of convergence of this new estimator is investigated and the rate of the optimal bandwidth obtained. Under limit conditions on the smoothing parameter the convolution-type estimator is proved to be -consistent, which contrasts with the asymptotic behavior of the ordinary kernel density estimator, that is only -consistent.     

Nonparametric Density Estimation for a Long-Range Dependent Linear Process

We estimate the marginal density function of a long-range dependent linear process by the kernel estimator. We assume the innovations are i.i.d. Then it is known that the term of the sample mean is dominant in the MISE of the kernel density estimator when the dependence is beyond some level which depends on the bandwidth and that the MISE has asymptotically the same form as for i.i.d. observations when the dependence is below the level. We call the latter the case where the dependence is not very strong and focus on it in this paper. We show that the asymptotic distribution of the kernel density estimator is the same as for i.i.d. observations and the effect of long-range dependence does not appear. In addition we describe some results for weakly dependent linear processes.     

Fourier methods for smooth distribution function estimation

The limit behavior of the optimal bandwidth sequence for the kernel distribution function estimator is analyzed, in its greatest generality, by using Fourier transform methods. We show a class of distributions for which the kernel estimator achieves a first-order improvement in efficiency over the empirical estimator.     

条件概率密度函数核估计的误差分析及其最优带宽的选择

本文在α-混合严平稳过程的假设下，研究了条件概率密度核估计的偏和均方误差．在此基础上给出了核估计的渐近最优带宽，并以S＆P500指数为例展示了本文的结果．     

Estimating a density under pointwise constraints on the derivatives

Suppose we want to estimate a density at a point where we know the values of its first or higher order derivatives. In this case a given kernel estimator of the density can be modified by adding appropriately weighted kernel estimators of these derivatives. We give conditions under which the modified estimators are asymptotically normal. We also determine the optimal weights. When the highest derivative is known to vanish at a point, then the bias is asymptotically negligible at that point and the asymptotic variance of the kernel estimator can be made arbitrarily small by choosing a large bandwidth.     

Estimating and Visualizing Conditional Densities

Abstract

We consider the kernel estimator of conditional density and derive its asymptotic bias, variance, and mean-square error. Optimal bandwidths (with respect to integrated mean-square error) are found and it is shown that the convergence rate of the density estimator is order n ^–2/3. We also note that the conditional mean function obtained from the estimator is equivalent to a kernel smoother. Given the undesirable bias properties of kernel smoothers, we seek a modified conditional density estimator that has mean equivalent to some other nonparametric regression smoother with better bias properties. It is also shown that our modified estimator has smaller mean square error than the standard estimator in some commonly occurring situations. Finally, three graphical methods for visualizing conditional density estimators are discussed and applied to a data set consisting of maximum daily temperatures in Melbourne, Australia.     

Asymptotic Normality of a Combined Regression Estimator

In this paper, we propose a combined regression estimator by using a parametric estimator and a nonparametric estimator of the regression function. The asymptotic distribution of this estimator is obtained for cases where the parametric regression model is correct, incorrect, and approximately correct. These distributional results imply that the combined estimator is superior to the kernel estimator in the sense that it can never do worse than the kernel estimator in terms of convergence rate and it has the same convergence rate as the parametric estimator in the case where the parametric model is correct. Unlike the parametric estimator, the combined estimator is robust to model misspecification. In addition, we also establish the asymptotic distribution of the estimator of the weight given to the parametric estimator in constructing the combined estimator. This can be used to construct consistent tests for the parametric regression model used to form the combined estimator.     

左截断相依数据下条件分位数的双核局部线性估计

本文在左截断相依数据下,利用局部线性估计的方法,先提出了条件分布函数的双核估计;然后利用该估计导出了条件分位数的双核局部线性估计,并建立了这些估计的渐近正态性结果;最后,通过模拟显示该估计在偏移和边界点调节上要比一般的核估计更好.     

Locally adaptive hazard smoothing

Summary We consider nonparametric estimation of hazard functions and their derivatives under random censorship, based on kernel smoothing of the Nelson (1972) estimator. One critically important ingredient for smoothing methods is the choice of an appropriate bandwidth. Since local variance of these estimates depends on the point where the hazard function is estimated and the bandwidth determines the trade-off between local variance and local bias, data-based local bandwidth choice is proposed. A general principle for obtaining asymptotically efficient data-based local bandwiths, is obtained by means of weak convergence of a local bandwidth process to a Gaussian limit process. Several specific asymptotically efficient bandwidth estimators are discussed. We propose in particular an, asymptotically efficient method derived from direct pilot estimators of the hazard function and of the local mean squared error. This bandwidth choice method has practical advantages and is also of interest in the uncensored case as well as for density estimation.Research supported by UC Davis Faculty Research Grant and by Air Force grant AFOSR-89-0386Research supported by Air Force grant AFOSR-89-0386     

Global minima of least square cross validation for a symmetric polynomial kernel with finite support

The least squares cross validated bandwidth is the minimizer of the cross validation function for choosing the smooth parameter of a kernel density estimator. It is a completely automatic method, but it requires inordinate amounts of computational time. We present a convenient formula for calculation of the cross validation function when the kernel function is a symmetric polynomial with finite support. Also we suggest an algorithm for finding global minima of the cross validation function.     

核估计量、窗宽与置信带

本文对非参数回归曲线提出一种新的核估计量和窗宽选择方法及其修正偏倚置信带 .仅利用该回归曲线的估计量和选择数据的窗宽构造这些置信带 .证明了在大样本的意义下 ,这种修正偏倚置信带和Bonferroni型带具有渐近修正范围概率的性质 .并且通过MonteCarlo实验研究了它在小样本中的性质 .在模拟研究中已经证明 ,这种修正偏倚置信带方法是很有效的 ,即使在样本容量n=1 0 0的情况下 ,它也接近给定的范围概率 .     

NA样本递归型分布函数估计的相合性

在NA相依样本条件下，对未知分布函数F(x)的递归核估计进行研究，在适当的条件下，得到了估计的r^-阶平均相合速度，逐点强相合和一致强相合速度，作为应用，讨论了平均剩余寿命函数估计的相合速度。     

带有辅助信息的ROC曲线两种估计的比较

在医学研究中,常常使用受试者操作特性曲线(ROC)曲线来研究两样本的比较问题。Lloyd构造了ROC曲线的核平滑估计,并给出了其渐近偏差以及渐近标准差。此外,当还可以获悉某一处理组上的辅助信息时,Zhou,Zhou & Ma利用经验似然的方法构造了ROC曲线的核平滑经验似然估计。本文利用"亏量"这个概念比较了带有辅助信息的情况下,对核平滑经验似然估计与完全经验似然估计进行了比较。并给出了核平滑经验似然估计优于完全经验似然估计的结论,并且随着样本容量的增大,该亏量也是无限增大的。     

A NOTE ON OSCILLATION MODULUS OF PL-PROCESS AND ITS APPLICATIONS UNDER RANDOM CENSORSHIP

The strong limit results of oscillation modulus of PL-process are established in this paper when the density function is not continuous function for censored data. The rates of convergence of oscillation modulus of PL-process are sharp under week condition. These results can be used to derive laws of the iterated logarithm of random bandwidth kernel estimator and nearest neighborhood estimator of density under continuous conditions of density function being not assumed.     

Birnbaum–Saunders power-exponential kernel density estimation and Bayes local bandwidth selection for nonnegative heavy tailed data

In this paper, we study the performance of the Birnbaum–Saunders-power-exponential (BS-PE) kernel and Bayesian local bandwidth selection in the context of kernel density estimation for nonnegative heavy tailed data. Our approach considers the BS-PE kernel estimator and treats locally the bandwidth h as a parameter with prior distribution. The posterior density of h at each point x (point where the density is estimated) is derived in closed form, and the Bayesian bandwidth selector is obtained by using popular loss functions. The performance evaluation of this new procedure is carried out by a simulation study and real data in web-traffic. The proposed method is very quick and very competitive in comparison with the existing global methods, namely biased cross-validation and unbiased cross-validation.