A Greek weight associated to a parameterized random variable Z(λ) is a random variable π such that ∇λE[φ(Z(λ))] =E[φ(Z(λ))π] for any function φ. The importance of the set of Greek weights for the purpose of Monte Carlo simulations has been highlighted in the recent literature. Our main concern in this paper is to devise methods which produce the optimal weight, which is well known to be given b...

A mean function in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), or a kernel mean, is an important part of many algorithms ranging from kernel principal component analysis to Hilbert-space embedding of distributions. Given a finite sample, an empirical average is the standard estimate for the true kernel mean. We show that this estimator can be improved due to a well-known phenomenon in statistics...

The key problem of inductive-learning in Bayes network is the estimator of prior distribution. This paper adopted general native Bayes to handle continuous variables, proposed a kind of kernel function constructed by orthogonal polynomials, which is used to estimate the density function of prior distribution in Bayes network. Paper then made further researches into optimality of kernel density ...

Masry (1996b) provides estimation bias and variance expression for a general local polynomial kernel estimator in a general multivariate regression framework. Under smoother conditions on the unknown regression and by including more refined approximation terms than that in Masry (1996b), we extend the result of Masry (1996b) to obtain explicit leading bias terms for the whole vector of the loca...

Quantiles, also known as value-at-risks in the financial industry, are important measures of random performances. Quantile sensitivities provide information on how changes in input parameters affect output quantiles. They are very useful in risk management. In this article, we study the estimation of quantile sensitivities using stochastic simulation. We propose a kernel estimator and prove tha...

In this abstract paper, we introduce a new kernel learning method by a nonparametric density estimator. The estimator consists of a group of k-centroids clusterings. Each clustering randomly selects data points with randomly selected features as its centroids, and learns a one-hot encoder by one-nearest-neighbor optimization. The estimator generates a sparse representation for each data point. ...

This paper develops robust testing procedures for nonparametric kernel methods in the presence of temporal dependence of unknown forms. Based on the …xed-bandwidth asymptotic variance and the pre-asymptotic variance, we propose a heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation robust (HAR) variance estimator that achieves double robustness — it is asymptotically valid regardless of whether the temporal ...

The pair correlation function is a fundamental spatial point process characteristic that, given the intensity function, determines second order moments of the point process. Non-parametric estimation of the pair correlation function is a typical initial step of a statistical analysis of a spatial point pattern. Kernel estimators are popular but especially for clustered point patterns suffer fro...

Because of a lack of a priori information, the minimum mean-squared error predictor, the conditional expectation, is often not known for a non-Gaussian time series. We show that the nonparametric kernel regression estimator of the conditional expectation is mean-squared consistent for a time series: When used as a predictor, the estimator asymptotically matches the mean-squared error produced b...

Poston, W.L., et al., A qualitative analysis of the resistive grid kernel estimator, Pattern Recognition Letters 15 (1993) 219-225. The ability to estimate a probability density function from random data has applications in discriminant analysis and pattern recognition problems. A resistive grid kernel estimator (RGKE) is described which is suitable for hardware implementation. The one-dimensio...