Bootstrapping the Grenander estimator
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to study the bootstrap for the Grenander estimator. The first result is a proof of the inconsistency of the nonparametric bootstrap for the Grenander estimator at a given point. The second result is the development and verification of a bootstrap for the confidence band for the Grenander estimator. As part of this work, kernel estimators are studied as alternatives to the Grenander estimator. We show that when the second derivative of the true density is assumed to be uniformly bounded, there exist kernel estimators with faster convergence rates than the Grenander estimator. We study the implications of this in developing and uniform confidence bands and discuss some open questions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.2470,
title = {Bootstrapping the Grenander estimator},
author = {Michael R. Kosorok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2470},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/193940307000000202 the IMS Collections (http://www.imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)