Adaptive Estimation of Monotone Functions

  • Kang, Yung-Gyung (Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Hanshin University)
  • Published : 1998.12.01

Abstract

In the white noise model we construct an adaptive estimate for f(0) for a decreasing function f. We also show that the maximum mean square error of this estimate attains the same rate as the minimax risk simultaneously over a range of Lipschitz classes of order less than or equal to one.

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