
Statistics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1-2009
Publication Source
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Volume
100
Issue
1
Start Page
126
Last Page
136
DOI
10.1016/j.jmva.2008.03.007
Abstract
Variance function estimation in multivariate nonparametric regression is considered and the minimax rate of convergence is established in the iid Gaussian case. Our work uses the approach that generalizes the one used in [A. Munk, Bissantz, T. Wagner, G. Freitag, On difference based variance estimation in nonparametric regression when the covariate is high dimensional, J. R. Stat. Soc. B 67 (Part 1) (2005) 19–41] for the constant variance case. As is the case when the number of dimensions d=1, and very much contrary to standard thinking, it is often not desirable to base the estimator of the variance function on the residuals from an optimal estimator of the mean. Instead it is desirable to use estimators of the mean with minimal bias. Another important conclusion is that the first order difference based estimator that achieves minimax rate of convergence in the one-dimensional case does not do the same in the high dimensional case. Instead, the optimal order of differences depends on the number of dimensions.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 2009. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
Keywords
minimax estimation, nonparametric regression, variance estimation
Recommended Citation
Cai, T., Levine, M., & Wang, L. (2009). Variance Function Estimation in Multivariate Nonparametric Regression. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 100 (1), 126-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2008.03.007
Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.