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This paper considers the asymptotic behavior in $\beta$-H\"older spaces, and under $L^p$ losses, of a Dirichlet kernel density estimator proposed by Aitchison and Lauder (1985) for the analysis of compositional data. In recent work, Ouimet…

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In this paper, we study the asymptotic properties (bias, variance, mean squared error) of Bernstein estimators for cumulative distribution functions and density functions near and on the boundary of the $d$-dimensional simplex. Our results…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Frédéric Ouimet

In this short note, we prove an asymptotic expansion for the ratio of the Dirichlet density to the multivariate normal density with the same mean and covariance matrix. The expansion is then used to derive an upper bound on the total…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Frédéric Ouimet

This paper investigates the theoretical properties of Dirichlet kernel density estimators for compositional data supported on simplices, for the first time addressing scenarios involving time-dependent observations characterized by strong…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Hanen Daayeb , Salah Khardani , Frédéric Ouimet

This paper introduces a local linear smoother for regression surfaces on the simplex. The estimator solves a least-squares regression problem weighted by a locally adaptive Dirichlet kernel, ensuring good boundary properties. Asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Christian Genest , Frédéric Ouimet

Nonparametric density estimation for compositional data supported on the simplex is examined under a missing at random mechanism. Rather than imputing missing values and estimating the density from a completed data set, we adopt a strategy…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Hanen Daayeb , Wissem Jedidi , Salah Khardani , Guanjie Lyu , Frédéric Ouimet

Bernstein estimators are well-known to avoid the boundary bias problem of traditional kernel estimators. The theoretical properties of these estimators have been studied extensively on compact intervals and hypercubes, but never on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Frédéric Ouimet

In this article we perform an asymptotic analysis of Bayesian parallel kernel density estimators introduced by Neiswanger, Wang and Xing (2014). We derive the asymptotic expansion of the mean integrated squared error for the full data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Alexey Miroshnikov , Evgeny Savelev

A kernel density estimator for data on the polysphere $\mathbb{S}^{d_1}\times\cdots\times\mathbb{S}^{d_r}$, with $r,d_1,\ldots,d_r\geq 1$, is presented in this paper. We derive the main asymptotic properties of the estimator, including mean…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-08 Eduardo García-Portugués , Andrea Meilán-Vila

A Dirichlet-kernel Gasser-M\"uller (D-GM) estimator is introduced for fixed design regression on the simplex, extending the univariate analog due to Chen [Statist. Sinica, vol. 10(1) (2000), pp. 73-91]. Its pointwise bias and variance,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Hanen Daayeb , Christian Genest , Salah Khardani , Nicolas Klutchnikoff , Frédéric Ouimet

Mixture models are well-known for their versatility, and the Bayesian paradigm is a suitable platform for mixture analysis, particularly when the number of components is unknown. Bhattacharya (2008) introduced a mixture model based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Sourabh Bhattacharya

Discrete kernel smoothing is now gaining importance in nonparametric statistics. In this paper, we investigate some asymptotic properties of the normalized discrete associated-kernel estimator of a probability mass function. We show, under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Youssef Esstafa , Célestin C. Kokonendji , Sobom M. Somé

Density estimation represents one of the most successful applications of Bayesian nonparametrics. In particular, Dirichlet process mixtures of normals are the gold standard for density estimation and their asymptotic properties have been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Antonio Canale , Pierpaolo De Blasi

We extend balloon and sample-smoothing estimators, two types of variable-bandwidth kernel density estimators, by a shift parameter and derive their asymptotic properties. Our approach facilitates the unified study of a wide range of density…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-11 Till Hoffmann , Nick S. Jones

We show that rate-adaptive multivariate density estimation can be performed using Bayesian methods based on Dirichlet mixtures of normal kernels with a prior distribution on the kernel's covariance matrix parameter. We derive sufficient…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-22 Weining Shen , Surya T. Tokdar , Subhashis Ghosal

Discrete mixture models are one of the most successful approaches for density estimation. Under a Bayesian nonparametric framework, Dirichlet process location-scale mixture of Gaussian kernels is the golden standard, both having nice…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-02 Antonio Canale , Bruno Scarpa

Compositional data, representing proportions constrained to the simplex, arise in diverse fields such as geosciences, ecology, genomics, and microbiome research. Existing nonparametric density estimation methods often rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-10 Jiajin Xie , Yong Wang , Eduardo García-Portugués

In this paper, we propose a new randomized method for numerical integration on a compact complex manifold with respect to a continuous volume form. Taking for quadrature nodes a suitable determinantal point process, we build an unbiased…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Thibaut Lemoine , Rémi Bardenet

Averaging provides an alternative to bandwidth selection for density kernel estimation. We propose a procedure to combine linearly several kernel estimators of a density obtained from different, possibly data-driven, bandwidths. The method…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 O. Chernova , F. Lavancier , P. Rochet

This paper considers the asymptotic behavior in $\beta$-H\"older spaces, and under $L^p$ loss, of the gamma kernel density estimator introduced by Chen [Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 52 (2000), 471-480] for the analysis of nonnegative data,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Frédéric Ouimet
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