BAHADUR REPRESENTATION OF THEKERNEL QUANTILE ESTIMATOR UNDER TRUNCATED AND CENSORED DATA

1.IntroductionTheestimationofpopulationquaillesisofgrestillterestwhenone.isnotpreparedtoassumeaparametricformfortheunderlyingdistribution.Inaddition,quaillesoftenariseasthensturalthingtoestimatewhentheunderlyingdistributionisskewed.LetXIIXZ,')Xubei...     

Precise asymptotics for the first moment of the error variance estimator in linear models

Let σ² be the unknown error variance of a linear model and let be the estimator of σ² based on the residual sum of squares. In this work, we show the precise asymptotics in the law of the logarithm for the first moment of the error variance estimator.     

Precise asymptotics of error variance estimator in partially linear models

In this paper, we focus our attention on the precise asymptotics of error variance estimator in partially linear regression models, y _i = x _i ^τ β + g(t _i ) + ε _i , 1 ≤ i ≤ n, {ε _i , i = 1, ⋯ n} are i.i.d random errors with mean 0 and positive finite variance σ ². Following the ideas of Allan Gut and Aurel Spătaru^[7,8] and Zhang^[21], on precise asymptotics in the Baum-Katz and Davis laws of large numbers and precise rate in laws of the iterated logarithm, respectively, and subject to some regular conditions, we obtain the corresponding results in partially linear regression models.      

GARCH option pricing: A semiparametric approach

Option pricing based on GARCH models is typically obtained under the assumption that the random innovations are standard normal (normal GARCH models). However, these models fail to capture the skewness and the leptokurtosis in financial data. We propose a new method to compute option prices using a nonparametric density estimator for the distribution of the driving noise. We investigate the pricing performances of this approach using two different risk neutral measures: the Esscher transform pioneered by Gerber and Shiu [Gerber, H.U., Shiu, E.S.W., 1994a. Option pricing by Esscher transforms (with discussions). Trans. Soc. Actuar. 46, 99–91], and the extended Girsanov principle introduced by Elliot and Madan [Elliot, R.J., Madan, D.G., 1998. A discrete time equivalent martingale 9 measure. Math. Finance 8, 127–152]. Both measures are justified by economic arguments and are consistent with Duan’s [Duan, J.-C., 1995. The GARCH option pricing model. Math. Finance 5, 13–32] local risk neutral valuation relationship (LRNVR) for normal GARCH models. The main advantage of the two measures is that one can price derivatives using skewed or heavier tailed innovations distributions to model the returns. An empirical study regarding the European Call option valuation on S&P500 Index shows: (i) under both risk neutral measures our semiparametric algorithm performs better than the existing normal GARCH models if we allow for a leverage effect and (ii) the pricing errors when using the Esscher transform are quite small even though our estimation procedure is based only on historical return data.     

分数布朗运动随机微分方程的MLE和Bayes估计的大偏差不等式

本文研究了分数布朗运动随机微分方程未知参数的极大似然估计和Bayes估计的偏差不等式.在一定的正则条件下.利用似然方法给出了这两个估计量的大偏差不等式.     

MODERATE DEVIATIONS AND LARGE DEVIATIONS FOR A TEST OF SYMMETRY BASED ON KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATOR

Let fn be a non-parametric kernel density estimator based on a kernel function K. and a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables taking values in R. The goal of this article is to prove moderate deviations and large deviations for the statistic sup ｜fn（x） - fn（-x） ｜.     

ADMISSIBILITY OF LINEAR ESTIMATORS IN A GROWTH CURVE MODEL SUBJECT TO AN INCOMPLETE ELLIPSOIDAL RESTRICTION

This article considers the admissibility of the linear estimators for the regression coefficients in the growth curve model subject to an incomplete ellipsoidal restriction. The necessary and sufficient conditions for linear estimators to be admissible in classes of the homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear estimators, respectively, are obtained under the quadratic loss function. They are generalizations of some existing results in literature.     

Second-order nonlinear least squares estimation

The ordinary least squares estimation is based on minimization of the squared distance of the response variable to its conditional mean given the predictor variable. We extend this method by including in the criterion function the distance of the squared response variable to its second conditional moment. It is shown that this “second-order” least squares estimator is asymptotically more efficient than the ordinary least squares estimator if the third moment of the random error is nonzero, and both estimators have the same asymptotic covariance matrix if the error distribution is symmetric. Simulation studies show that the variance reduction of the new estimator can be as high as 50% for sample sizes lower than 100. As a by-product, the joint asymptotic covariance matrix of the ordinary least squares estimators for the regression parameter and for the random error variance is also derived, which is only available in the literature for very special cases, e.g. that random error has a normal distribution. The results apply to both linear and nonlinear regression models, where the random error distributions are not necessarily known.     

Admissibility of Linear Estimators in the Growth Curve Model with Respect to Inequalitv Restriction

For the growth curve model with respect to inequality restriction： Y = XBZ ＋ε,ε（0, σ2V I）, trNB ≥0, this paper gives some necessary and sufficient conditions for the linear estimator of KBL to be admissible in the class of homogeneous linear estimators LH and nonhomogeneous linear estimators LI, respectively, under the quadratic loss function tr（d（Y） - KBL）＇（d（Y） - KBL）.     

协方差的非齐次估计的可容许性

本文研究协方差的非齐次二次估计的可容许性,在平方损失下,我们给出了一个非齐次二次估计在非齐次二次估计类中是协方差的容许估计的充要条件.