Asymptotic approximation of nonparametric regression experiments with unknown variances
Abstract
Asymptotic equivalence results for nonparametric regression experiments have always assumed that the variances of the observations are known. In practice, however the variance of each observation is generally considered to be an unknown nuisance parameter. We establish an asymptotic approximation to the nonparametric regression experiment when the value of the variance is an additional parameter to be estimated or tested. This asymptotically equivalent experiment has two components: the first contains all the information about the variance and the second has all the information about the mean. The result can be extended to regression problems where the variance varies slowly from observation to observation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.3647,
title = {Asymptotic approximation of nonparametric regression experiments with unknown variances},
author = {Andrew V. Carter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3647},
year = {2007}
}
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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000001613 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)