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In this work, we study wavelet projection estimators for density estimation, focusing on their construction from $\mathcal{S}$-regular, compactly supported wavelet bases. A key aspect of such estimators is the choice of the resolution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Van Ha Hoang , Tien Dat Nguyen , Thi Mong Ngoc Nguyen

Density estimation in high-dimensional settings is an important and challenging statistical problem.Traditional methods based on kernel smoothing are inefficient in high dimensions due to the difficulties in specifying appropriate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Ruitong Zhang , Ke Deng

When analyzing modern machine learning algorithms, we may need to handle kernel density estimation (KDE) with intricate kernels that are not designed by the user and might even be irregular and asymmetric. To handle this emerging challenge,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Hau-Tieng Wu , Nan Wu

We focus on the estimation of the intensity of a Poisson process in the presence of a uniform noise. We propose a kernel-based procedure fully calibrated in theory and practice. We show that our adaptive estimator is optimal from the oracle…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-29 Anna Bonnet , Claire Lacour , Franck Picard , Vincent Rivoirard

A new multivariate density estimator for stationary sequences is obtained by Fourier inversion of the thresholded empirical characteristic function. This estimator does not depend on the choice of parameters related to the smoothness of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Sinda Ammous , Jérôme Dedecker , Céline Duval

We present a new adaptive kernel density estimator based on linear diffusion processes. The proposed estimator builds on existing ideas for adaptive smoothing by incorporating information from a pilot density estimate. In addition, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-12 Z. I. Botev , J. F. Grotowski , D. P. Kroese

We address the problem of adaptive minimax estimation in white gaussian noise model under $L_p$--loss, $1\leq p\leq\infty,$ on the anisotropic Nikolskii classes. We present the estimation procedure based on a new data-driven selection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Oleg Lepski

The paper deals with the density estimation on Rd under sup- norm loss. We provide with fully data-driven estimation procedure and establish for it so called sup-norm oracle inequality. The pro- posed estimator allows to take into account…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-29 Lepski Oleg

We address the problem of adaptive minimax density estimation on $\bR^d$ with $\bL_p$--loss on the anisotropic Nikol'skii classes. We fully characterize behavior of the minimax risk for different relationships between regularity parameters…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-19 A. Goldenshluger , O. Lepski

We construct confidence sets for the regression function in nonparametric binary regression with an unknown design density. These confidence sets are adaptive in $L^2$ loss over a continuous class of Sobolev type spaces. Adaptation holds in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Rajarshi Mukherjee , Subhabrata Sen

Kernel density estimation on a finite interval poses an outstanding challenge because of the well-recognized bias at the boundaries of the interval. Motivated by an application in cancer research, we consider a boundary constraint linking…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Matthew J. Colbrook , Zdravko I. Botev , Karsten Kuritz , Shev MacNamara

We estimate the density and its derivatives using a local polynomial approximation to the logarithm of an unknown density $f$. The estimator is guaranteed to be nonnegative and achieves the same optimal rate of convergence in the interior…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-06-03 Joris Pinkse , Karl Schurter

In the regression model $Y = b(X) +\sigma(X)\varepsilon$, where $X$ has a density $f$, this paper deals with an oracle inequality for an estimator of $bf$, involving a kernel in the sense of Lerasle et al. (2016), selected via the PCO…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Hélène Halconruy , Nicolas Marie

One key issue in several astrophysical problems is the evaluation of the density probability function underlying an observational discrete data set. We here review two non-parametric density estimators which recently appeared in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dario Fadda , Eric Slezak , Albert Bijaoui

Given a set of points $P\subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ and a kernel $k$, the Kernel Density Estimate at a point $x\in\mathbb{R}^{d}$ is defined as $\mathrm{KDE}_{P}(x)=\frac{1}{|P|}\sum_{y\in P} k(x,y)$. We study the problem of designing a data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Moses Charikar , Paris Siminelakis

We define a general method for finding a quasi-best approximant in sup-norm to a target density belonging to a given model, based on independent samples drawn from distributions which average to the target (which does not necessarily belong…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Guillaume Maillard

Kernel density estimation is a popular method for estimating unseen probability distributions. However, the convergence of these classical estimators to the true density slows down in high dimensions. Moreover, they do not define meaningful…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jack Kendrick

We develop a kernel-based approach for estimating the spatially varying Sobolev regularity~$s$ of an unknown $d$-variate function~$f$ from scattered sampling data, which quantifies the degree of local differentiability supported by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Xiaobin Li , Leevan Ling , Yizhong Sun

Estimator selection has become a crucial issue in non parametric estimation. Two widely used methods are penalized empirical risk minimization (such as penalized log-likelihood estimation) or pairwise comparison (such as Lepski's method).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Claire Lacour , Pascal Massart , Vincent Rivoirard

Sobolev quantities (norms, inner products, and distances) of probability density functions are important in the theory of nonparametric statistics, but have rarely been used in practice, partly due to a lack of practical estimators. They…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Shashank Singh , Simon S. Du , Barnabás Póczos