Autore:
Pezzulli, Sergio Titolo:
NEW METHODS FOR PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC HIGH ORDER KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATIONPeriodico:
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - Dipartimento di metodi e modelli per l'economia il territorio e la finanza. Working papersAnno:
2019 - Fascicolo:
163 - Pagina iniziale:
1 - Pagina finale:
20The Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) method is seen here as the first step of the Expectation
Maximization (EM) algorithm for estimating the density of a latent variable when the initial guess
is the uniform distribution. The properties of the first EM step are then investigated for different
choices of the starting density. When the KDE itself is chosen the asymptotic bias of the EM
update has the opposite value of KDE while the variance order is maintained. Thus, the average
of the EM update with the KDE reduces the best achievable mean integrated square error from
n
-4/5to n-8/9
. Another estimator that achieves higher order efficiency (HOE) is directly obtained by
the EM update when the initial guess is the square root of the KDE. Moreover, both the average
type and the square-root type of HOE estimators have a semiparametric twin estimator,
obtained by adopting a parametric estimate in place of the initial guess and, of course, they
achieve HOE when the parametric family is exact. These four HOE methods are then tested on
simulations and compared to another pair of estimators known in literature which can be seen
as a third way to bias-correct the EM update.
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