Confidence Bands for Convex Median Curves Using Sign-Tests

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  • Lutz Dümbgen
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Suppose that one observes pairs (x1, Y1), (x2, Y2), . . . , (xn, Yn), where x1 ≤ x2 ≤ · · · ≤ xn are fixed numbers, and Y1, Y2, . . . , Yn are independent random variables with unknown distributions. The only assumption is that Median(Yi) = f(xi) for some unknown convex function f . We present a confidence band for this regression function f using suitable multiscale signtests. While the exact computation of this band requires O(n4) steps, good approximations can be obtained in O(n2) steps. In addition the confidence band is shown to have desirable asymptotic properties as the sample size n tends to infinity.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001