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现状观测模型中的最大平滑似然估计与平滑最大似然估计AI 解读

We consider the problem of estimating the distribution function, the density and the hazard rate of the (unobservable) event time in the current status model. A well studied and natural nonparametric estimator for the distribution function in this model is the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE). We study two alternative methods for the estimation of the distribution function, assuming some smoothness of the event time distribution. The first estimator is based…

谱密度估计与高斯白噪声的渐近等价AI 解读

We consider the statistical experiment given by a sample y(1), …, y(n) of a stationary Gaussian process with an unknown smooth spectral density f. Asymptotic equivalence, in the sense of Le Cam’s deficiency Δ-distance, to two Gaussian experiments with simpler structure is established. The first one is given by independent zero mean Gaussians with variance approximately f(ωi), where ωi is a uniform grid of points in (−π, π) (nonparametric Gaussian scale regression). This…

Beta 混合后验的收敛速度与自适应非参数密度估计AI 解读

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic properties of nonparametric Bayesian mixtures of Betas for estimating a smooth density on [0, 1]. We consider a parametrization of Beta distributions in terms of mean and scale parameters and construct a mixture of these Betas in the mean parameter, while putting a prior on this scaling parameter. We prove that such Bayesian nonparametric models have good frequentist asymptotic properties. We determine the posterior rate of…

部分线性单指标模型的估计AI 解读

In this paper, we study the estimation for a partial-linear single-index model. A two-stage estimation procedure is proposed to estimate the link function for the single index and the parameters in the single index, as well as the parameters in the linear component of the model. Asymptotic normality is established for both parametric components. For the index, a constrained estimating equation leads to an asymptotically more efficient estimator than existing estimators in…

核随机矩阵的谱AI 解读

We place ourselves in the setting of high-dimensional statistical inference where the number of variables p in a dataset of interest is of the same order of magnitude as the number of observations n. We consider the spectrum of certain kernel random matrices, in particular n×n matrices whose (i, j)th entry is f(X'iXj/p) or f(‖Xi−Xj‖2/p) where p is the dimension of the data, and Xi are independent data vectors. Here f is assumed to be a locally smooth function. The study is…

适应未知光滑度的平均导数估计AI 解读

Many important models utilize estimation of average derivatives of the conditional mean function. Asymptotic results in the literature on density weighted average derivative estimators (ADE) focus on convergence at parametric rates; this requires making stringent assumptions on smoothness of the underlying density; here we derive asymptotic properties under relaxed smoothness assumptions. We adapt to the unknown smoothness in the model by consistently estimating the optimal…

改进的随机占优自助法检验AI 解读

We propose a new method of testing stochastic dominance that improves on existing tests based on the standard bootstrap or subsampling. The method admits prospects involving infinite as well as finite dimensional unknown parameters, so that the variables are allowed to be residuals from nonparametric and semiparametric models. The proposed bootstrap tests have asymptotic sizes that are less than or equal to the nominal level uniformly over probabilities in the null…

加性系数模型的样条回拟核平滑AI 解读

Additive coefficient model (Xue and Yang, 2006a, 2006b) is a flexible regression and autoregression tool that circumvents the “curse of dimensionality.” We propose spline-backfitted kernel (SBK) and spline-backfitted local linear (SBLL) estimators for the component functions in the additive coefficient model that are both (i) computationally expedient so they are usable for analyzing high dimensional data, and (ii) theoretically reliable so inference can be made on the…

逆条件密度加权期望估计的最优带宽选择AI 解读

This paper characterizes the bandwidth value ( h ) that is optimal for estimating parameters of the form $\eta \, = \,E\left[ {\omega /f_{V|U} \left({V|U} \right)} \right]$ , where the conditional density of a scalar continuous random variable V , given a random vector U , $f_{V|U} $ , is replaced by its kernel estimator. That is, the parameter η is the expectation of ω inversely weighted by $f_{V|U} $ , and it is the building block of various semiparametric…

已实现瞬时波动率的非参数滤波：核方法AI 解读

A kernel weighted version of the standard realized integrated volatility estimator is proposed. By different choices of the kernel and bandwidth, the measure allows us to focus on specific characteristics of the volatility process. In particular, as the bandwidth vanishes, an estimator of the realized spot volatility is obtained. We denote this the filtered spot volatility. We show consistency and asymptotic normality of the kernel smoothed realized volatility and the…

局部复合分位数回归平滑：局部多项式回归的替代方法AI 解读

Summary Local polynomial regression is a useful non-parametric regression tool to explore fine data structures and has been widely used in practice. We propose a new non-parametric regression technique called local composite quantile regression smoothing to improve local polynomial regression further. Sampling properties of the estimation procedure proposed are studied. We derive the asymptotic bias, variance and normality of the estimate proposed. The asymptotic relative…

短期与长期因果度量：理论与推断AI 解读

The concept of causality introduced by Wiener [Wiener, N., 1956. The theory of prediction, In: E.F. Beckenback, ed., The Theory of Prediction, McGraw-Hill, New York (Chapter 8)] and Granger [Granger, C. W.J., 1969. Investigating causal relations by econometric models and cross-spectral methods, Econometrica 37, 424-459] is defined in terms of predictability one period ahead. This concept can be generalized by considering causality at any given horizon h as well as tests for…

利用条件鞅变换检验半参数条件矩限制AI 解读

This paper studies conditional moment restrictions that contain unknown nonparametric functions, and proposes a general method of obtaining asymptotically distribution-free tests via martingale transforms. Examples of such conditional moment restrictions are single index restrictions, partially parametric regressions, and partially parametric quantile regressions. This paper introduces a conditional martingale transform that is conditioned on the variable in the…

均值—方差有效性检验的比较AI 解读

We analyse the asymptotic properties of mean-variance efficiency tests based on generalised methods of moments, and parametric and semiparametric likelihood procedures that assume elliptical innovations. We study the trade-off between efficiency and robustness, and prove that the parametric estimators provide asymptotically valid inferences when the conditional distribution of the innovations is elliptical but possibly misspecified and heteroskedastic. We compare the small…

处理内生选择的一种新工具变量方法AI 解读

This paper develops a new method for dealing with endogenous selection. The usual instrumental strategy based on the independence between the outcome and the instrument is likely to fail when selection is directly driven by the dependent variable. Instead, we suggest to rely on the independence between the instrument and the selection variable, conditional on the outcome. This approach may be particularly suitable for nonignorable nonresponse, binary models with missing…

采用灵活分布的工具变量估计AI 解读

Instrumental variables are often associated with low estimator precision. This article explores efficiency gains that might be achievable using moment conditions that are nonlinear in the disturbances and are based on flexible parametric families for error distributions. We show that these estimators can achieve the semiparametric efficiency bound when the true error distribution is a member of the parametric family. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate low efficiency loss in…

含内生解释变量的广义回归模型中的因果效应检验AI 解读

A unifying framework to test for causal effects in nonlinear models is proposed. We consider a generalized linear-index regression model with endogenous regressors and no parametric assumptions on the error disturbances. To test the significance of the effect of an endogenous regressor, we propose a statistic that is a kernel-weighted version of the rank correlation statistic (tau) of Kendall (1938). The semiparametric model encompasses previous cases considered in the…

非加性特征价格模型的非参数识别与估计AI 解读

This paper studies the identification and estimation of preferences and technologies in equilibrium hedonic models. In it, we identify nonparametric structural relationships with nonadditive heterogeneity. We determine what features of hedonic models can be identified from equilibrium observations in a single market under weak assumptions about the available information. We then consider use of additional information about structural functions and heterogeneity…

认知与非认知技能形成技术的估计AI 解读

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for child cognitive and noncognitive skills. Output is determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and stocks of skills in that period to assess the benefits of early investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of…

离散结果的工具变量模型AI 解读

Single equation instrumental variable models for discrete outcomes are shown to be set identifying, not point identifying, for the structural functions that deliver the values of the discrete outcome. Bounds on identified sets are derived for a general nonparametric model and sharp set identification is demonstrated in the binary outcome case. Point identification is typically not achieved by imposing parametric restrictions. The extent of an identified set varies with the…

面板数据二元响应模型：识别与信息AI 解读

This paper considers a panel data model for predicting a binary outcome. The conditional probability of a positive response is obtained by evaluating a given distribution function (F) at a linear combination of the predictor variables. One of the predictor variables is unobserved. It is a random effect that varies across individuals but is constant over time. The semiparametric aspect is that the conditional distribution of the random effect, given the predictor variables,…

无差异交易者回忆录：从预测市场估计预测分布AI 解读

Prediction markets for future events are increasingly common and they often trade several contracts for the same event. This paper considers the distribution of a normative risk-neutral trader who, given any portfolio of contracts traded on the event, would choose not to reallocate that portfolio of contracts even if transactions costs were zero. Because common parametric distributions can conflict with observed prediction market prices, the distribution is given a…

切换机制模型中处理效应分布的部分识别及其置信集AI 解读

In this paper, we establish sharp bounds on the joint distribution of potential outcomes and the distribution of treatment effects in parametric switching regime models with normal mean-variance mixture errors and in the semi-parametric switching regime models of Heckman (1990). Our results for parametric switching regime models with normal mean-variance mixture errors extend some existing results for the Gaussian switching regime model and our results for semi-parametric…

右删失长度偏倚数据的非参数估计：伪偏似然方法AI 解读

To estimate the lifetime distribution of right-censored length-biased data, we propose a pseudo-partial likelihood approach that allows us to derive two nonparametric estimators. With its closed-form estimators and explicit limiting variances, this approach retains the simplicity of conditional analysis, and has only a small efficiency loss compared with the unconditional analysis. Under some regularity conditions, we show that the two estimators are uniformly consistent and…