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We construct an adaptive wavelet estimator that attains minimax near-optimal rates in a wide range of Besov balls. The convergence rates are affected only by the weakest dependence amongst the channels, and take into account both noise…
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We study minimax lower bounds for function estimation problems on large graph when the target function is smoothly varying over the graph. We derive minimax rates in the context of regression and classification problems on graphs that…
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We consider data-adaptive wavelet estimation of a trend function in a time series model with strongly dependent Gaussian residuals. Asymptotic expressions for the optimal mean integrated squared error and corresponding optimal smoothing and…
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We look into the minimax results for the anisotropic two-dimensional functional deconvolution model with the two-parameter fractional Gaussian noise. We derive the lower bounds for the $L^p$-risk, $1 \leq p < \infty$, and taking advantage…