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Quadratic functional estimation from observations with multiplicative measurement error

Abstract

We consider the nonparametric estimation of the value of a quadratic functional evaluated at the density of a strictly positive random variable XX based on an iid. sample from an observation YY of XX corrupted by an independent multiplicative error UU. Quadratic functionals of the density covered are the L2\mathbb{L}^2-norm of the density and its derivatives or the survival function. We construct a fully data-driven estimator when the error density is known. The plug-in estimator is based on a density estimation combining the estimation of the Mellin transform of the YY density and a spectral cut-off regularized inversion of the Mellin transform of the error density. The main issue is the data-driven choice of the cut-off parameter using a Goldenshluger-Lepski-method. We discuss conditions under which the fully data-driven estimator attains oracle-rates up to logarithmic deteriorations. We compute convergence rates under classical smoothness assumptions and illustrate them by a simulation study.

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