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Deconvolution for an atomic distribution

Statistics Theory 2008-04-30 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Let X1,...,XnX_1,...,X_n be i.i.d. observations, where Xi=Yi+σZiX_i=Y_i+\sigma Z_i and YiY_i and ZiZ_i are independent. Assume that unobservable YY's are distributed as a random variable UV,UV, where UU and VV are independent, UU has a Bernoulli distribution with probability of zero equal to pp and VV has a distribution function FF with density f.f. Furthermore, let the random variables ZiZ_i have the standard normal distribution and let σ>0.\sigma>0. Based on a sample X1,...,Xn,X_1,..., X_n, we consider the problem of estimation of the density ff and the probability p.p. We propose a kernel type deconvolution estimator for ff and derive its asymptotic normality at a fixed point. A consistent estimator for pp is given as well. Our results demonstrate that our estimator behaves very much like the kernel type deconvolution estimator in the classical deconvolution problem.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3413,
  title  = {Deconvolution for an atomic distribution},
  author = {Bert van Es and Shota Gugushvili and Peter Spreij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3413},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-EJS121 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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