Adaptive estimation of a density function using beta kernels

Adaptive pointwise estimation of conditional density function

Density Estimation with Mercer Kernels

We present a new method for density estimation based on Mercer kernels. The density estimate can be understood as the density induced on a data manifold by a mixture of Gaussians fit in a feature space. As is usual, the feature space and data manifold are defined with any suitable positive-definite kernel function. We modify the standard EM algorithm for mixtures of Gaussians to infer the param...

BAYES ESTIMATION USING A LINEX LOSS FUNCTION

This paper considers estimation of normal mean ? when the variance is unknown, using the LINEX loss function. The unique Bayes estimate of ? is obtained when the precision parameter has an Inverse Gaussian prior density

Nonnegative bias reduction methods for density estimation using asymmetric kernels

Two classes of multiplicative bias correction (‘‘MBC’’) methods are applied to density estimation with support on [0, ∞). It is demonstrated that under sufficient smoothness of the true density, each MBC technique reduces the order of magnitude in bias, whereas the order of magnitude in variance remains unchanged. Accordingly, the mean integrated squared error of each MBC estimator achieves a f...

Adaptive density estimation using Stein’s blockwise method