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In this paper we study the problem of pointwise density estimation from observations with multiplicative measurement errors. We elucidate the main feature of this problem: the influence of the estimation point on the estimation accuracy. In…

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We present a novel approach for nonparametric regression using wavelet basis functions. Our proposal, $\texttt{waveMesh}$, can be applied to non-equispaced data with sample size not necessarily a power of 2. We develop an efficient proximal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-13 Asad Haris , Noah Simon , Ali Shojaie

We find the local rate of convergence of the least squares estimator (LSE) of a one dimensional convex regression function when (a) a certain number of derivatives vanish at the point of interest, and (b) the true regression function is…

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In this paper we study the computation of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) in multivariate mixture models. Our first approach discretizes this infinite dimensional convex optimization problem by fixing the support…

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Convergence properties of empirical risk minimizers can be conveniently expressed in terms of the associated population risk. To derive bounds for the performance of the estimator under covariate shift, however, pointwise convergence rates…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber , Petr Zamolodtchikov

The aim of this paper is to study the asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the drift coefficient for fractional stochastic heat equation driven by an additive space-time noise. We consider the traditional for…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Igor Cialenco , Francisco Delgado-Vences , Hyun-Jung Kim

We study the problem of estimating a multivariate convex function defined on a convex body in a regression setting with random design. We are interested in optimal rates of convergence under a squared global continuous $l_2$ loss in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Qiyang Han , Jon A. Wellner

In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the second order non-autonomous semilnear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) using the finite element method. To the best of our knowledge, only the linear case is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam

We consider parameter estimation for a linear parabolic second-order stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) in two space dimensions driven by two types $Q$-Wiener processes based on high frequency data in time and space. We first…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Yozo Tonaki , Yusuke Kaino , Masayuki Uchida

We consider the problem of estimating the parameters of a non-stationary Hawkes process with time-dependent reproduction rate and baseline intensity. Our approach relies on the standard maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), coinciding with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Thomas Deschatre , Pierre Gruet , Antoine Lotz

We prove that the convex least squares estimator (LSE) attains a $n^{-1/2}$ pointwise rate of convergence in any region where the truth is linear. In addition, the asymptotic distribution can be characterized by a modified invelope process.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Yining Chen , Jon A. Wellner

The goal of the paper is development of an optimization method with the superlinear convergence rate for a nonsmooth convex function. For optimization an approximation is used that is similar to the Steklov integral averaging. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-03 I. M. Prudnikov

While optimizing convex objective (loss) functions has been a powerhouse for machine learning for at least two decades, non-convex loss functions have attracted fast growing interests recently, due to many desirable properties such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Chao Qu , Yan Li , Huan Xu

Maximum likelihood estimation of linear functionals in the inverse problem of deconvolution is considered. Given observations of a random sample from a distribution $P_0\equiv P_{F_0}$ indexed by a (potentially infinite-dimensional)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Catia Scricciolo

We consider the nonparametric regression estimation problem of recovering an unknown response function f on the basis of spatially inhomogeneous data when the design points follow a known compactly supported density g with a finite number…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-29 Anestis Antoniadis , Marianna Pensky , Theofanis Sapatinas

We study the parameter estimation for parabolic, linear, second-order, stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) observing a mild solution on a discrete grid in time and space. A high-frequency regime is considered where the mesh of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Markus Bibinger , Mathias Trabs

Approximating the invariant measure and the expectation of the functionals for parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with non-globally Lipschitz coefficients is an active research area and is far from being well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Jianbo Cui , Jialin Hong , Liying Sun

The spectral density function describes the second-order properties of a stationary stochastic process on $\mathbb{R}^d$. This paper considers the nonparametric estimation of the spectral density of a continuous-time stochastic process…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Rafail Kartsioukas , Stilian Stoev , Tailen Hsing

This work is concerned with the formulation of a general framework for the analysis of meshfree approximation schemes and with the convergence analysis of the Local Maximum-Entropy (LME) scheme as a particular example. We provide conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Agustin Bompadre , Bernd Schmidt , Michael Ortiz