Small perturbations of Gaussian regressors
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Small perturbations of Gaussian regressors
zbMATH Open document ID: 0831.62064
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(94)00144-W
author: Annie Millet
author: Włdozmierz Smoleński
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 1996-02-13T00:00:00Z
review text: The aim of this paper is to describe the way the conditional expectation \(E(X\mid Y)\) given a Gaussian stochastic process (or more generally a Banach-valued Gaussian random vector) is perturbed by adding to the observation \(Y\) an independent Gaussian process (random vector). This may arise quite naturally when one wants to estimate \(X\) in terms of a Gaussian information which is blurred by a small independent ``noise''. Such expressions also appeared in the study of the characterization of a mean-square integrable process by the first two conditional moments. In Section 2 the results are formulated in terms of comparison of the covariances of \(Y\) and \(Z\), which is the most natural for stochastic processes, or in terms of the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) of the Banach-valued random vectors \(Y\) and \(Z\). Section 3 contains a simple proof of the convergence under conditions ensuring that the noise \(Z\) disappears from the limit. The statement and argument do not use any specific results concerning infinite-dimensional Gaussian random vectors. The theorems proved directly in this section are corollaries of the more general convergence theorem (Theorem 1) discussed in Section 2. In order to obtain a complete description of the limit, we use the RKHS of Gaussian random vectors (or random processes) in Section 4. One key result is contained in Proposition 12 which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the equality \({\mathcal F} (Y+ Z)= {\mathcal F} (Y, Z)\). The convergence theorems in Sections 3 and 4 depend on a one- dimensional analog of the convergence problem studied by \textit{W. Bryc} and \textit{W. Smoleński} [ibid. 15, No. 1, 41-46 (1992; Zbl 0764.62014)]. It is shown there that in case of real random variables (non-Gaussian in general) the limit of \(E(\cdot\mid Y+ \varepsilon Z)\) is \(E(\cdot \mid Y)\) for absolutely continuous \(Y\), is \(E(\cdot\mid Y,Z)\) for discrete \(Y\), and may not exist for singular \(Y\). In the Gaus…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62M10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60B12
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60B11
zbMATH DE Number: 796385
zbMATH Keywords: noise
zbMATH Keywords: regression
zbMATH Keywords: conditional expectation
zbMATH Keywords: Banach-valued Gaussian random vector
zbMATH Keywords: Gaussian process
zbMATH Keywords: reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
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