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Article Dans Une Revue Annals of Statistics Année : 2011

ON ADAPTIVE INFERENCE AND CONFIDENCE BANDS

Richard Nickl
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The problem of existence of adaptive confidence bands for an unknown density f that belongs to a nested scale of Holder classes over R or [0, 1] is considered. Whereas honest adaptive inference in this problem is impossible already for a pair of Holder balls Sigma (r), Sigma(s), r not equal s, of fixed radius, a non-parametric distinguishability condition is introduced under which adaptive confidence bands can be shown to exist. It is further shown that this condition is necessary and sufficient for the existence of honest asymptotic confidence bands, and that it is strictly weaker than similar analytic conditions recently employed in Gine and Nickl [Ann. Statist. 38 (2010) 1122-1170]. The exceptional sets for which honest inference is not possible have vanishingly small probability under natural priors on Holder balls Sigma (s). If no upper bound for the radius of the Holder balls is known, a price for adaptation has to be paid, and near-optimal adaptation is possible for standard procedures. The implications of these findings for a general theory of adaptive inference are discussed.

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hal-00692981 , version 1 (01-05-2012)

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Marc Hoffmann, Richard Nickl. ON ADAPTIVE INFERENCE AND CONFIDENCE BANDS. Annals of Statistics, 2011, 39 (5), pp.2383--2409. ⟨10.1214/11-AOS903⟩. ⟨hal-00692981⟩
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