Wavelet optimal estimations for density functions under severely ill-posed noises (Q2015274)

Summary: Motivated by \textit{K. Lounici} and \textit{R. Nickl}'s work [Ann. Stat. 39, No. 1, 201--231 (2011; Zbl 1209.62060)], this paper considers the problem of estimation of a density \(f\) based on an independent and identically distributed sample \(Y_1,\dots,Y_n\) from \(g=f\ast\varphi\). We show a wavelet optimal estimation for a density (function) over Besov ball \(B^s_{r,q}(L)\) and \(L^p\) risk (\(1\leq p<\infty\)) in the presence of severely ill-posed noises. A wavelet linear estimation is firstly presented. Then, we prove a lower bound, which shows our wavelet estimator optimal. In other words, nonlinear wavelet estimations are not needed in that case. It turns out that our results extend some theorems of \textit{M. Pensky} and \textit{B. Vidakovic} [Ann. Stat. 27, No. 6, 2033--2053 (1999; Zbl 0962.62030)], as well as \textit{J. Fan} and \textit{J.-Y. Koo} [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 48, No. 3, 734--747 (2002; Zbl 1071.94511)].