Adaptive estimation of mean and volatility functions in (auto-)regressive models.
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Adaptive estimation of mean and volatility functions in (auto-)regressive models.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1064.62046
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(01)00128-4
author: F. Comte
author: Yves Rozenholc
published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications
publication date: 2005-02-25T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors study a nonparametric AR(1) process with varying variance depending on the last state. The objective is to estimate both the mean and variance (volatility) functions. From many possibilities how to model a non-parametrized function the authors use the construction from functional bases. Namely they selected three bases: trigonometric, polynomial splines (two variants), and compactly supported wavelets. Hence, the model is built as a linear combination of basic functions, for both estimated functions. Naturally, the criterion of fit is then based on the least squares, and the error of the estimate is also expressed w.r. to the empirical \(L_2\) norm. The degree of the model is controlled by a penalty term. The authors propose an estimation procedure based on two steps, the first estimating the mean function, assuming constant variance, and the second estimating the variance function, again minimizing the corresponding sum of the squared divergences. Theoretical results then deal with the bounds for the accuracy of estimates (nonasymptotic), which are connected with the variability of variance (this variability actually is not taken into account in estimation of the mean function). A great part of the paper is devoted to simulation studies. Data are generated from a number of models, the results of estimation are compared with the best possible choice of fixed degree from a given functional basis (called here the oracle), which in real cases is not known, but however can be derived in cases of simulation studies, when the actual function is selected by the analyst. The last 13 pages contain technical details and proofs. It may be concluded that the paper offers both technical and numerical justification for the proposed procedure, though a more standard approach would use sequential iterative computation of the mean function (e.g., from a functional basis, by weighted least squares) and the variance function (e.g., with the help of kernel smoothing, avoidi…
reviewed by: Petr Volf
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62G08
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62M10
zbMATH DE Number: 2138935
zbMATH Keywords: nonparametric regression
zbMATH Keywords: least-squares estimator
zbMATH Keywords: adaptive estimation
zbMATH Keywords: autoregression
zbMATH Keywords: variance estimation
zbMATH Keywords: mixing processes
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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