An Improved Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Estimating Mean Functional, with Application to Average Treatment Effect Estimation
均值泛函估计的改进分治方法及其平均处理效应应用
Mean estimation is an important issue in statistical inference and machine learning. We are concerned with estimating mean functional that is a function of several nonparametric functions when there is a large amount of observations. Directly estimating such mean functional through nonparametric smoothing has the complexity of at least a quadratic order of the sample size, which is computationally prohibitive for massive data. The divide-and-conquer approach are thus readily…