Divide and conquer in nonstandard problems and the super-efficiency phenomenon
非标准问题中的分治方法与超效率现象
We study how the divide and conquer principle works in non-standard problems where rates of convergence are typically slower than $\sqrt{n}$ and limit distributions are non-Gaussian, and provide a detailed treatment for a variety of important and well-studied problems involving nonparametric estimation of a monotone function. We find that for a fixed model, the pooled estimator, obtained by averaging nonstandard estimates across mutually exclusive subsamples, outperforms the…