Dualizing Le Cam’s method for functional estimation I: General theory
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泛函估计中 Le Cam 方法的对偶化Ⅰ：一般理论
- 研究问题
- 在什么条件下，Le Cam 两点方法给出的统计下界能够刻画泛函估计的最优风险，其紧性如何由凸对偶解释？
- 方法与思路
- 作者将寻找最佳两点下界的最大化问题对偶化为估计量风险上界的最小化问题，并借助极小极大定理联系二者。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称在多种设定下可于通用常数因子内刻画最优风险，并放宽线性泛函与指数族已有结果的假设、扩展至高维可分泛函。
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Le Cam’s method (or the two-point method) is a commonly used tool for obtaining statistical lower bound and especially popular for functional estimation problems. This work aims to explain and give conditions for the tightness of Le Cam’s lower bound in functional estimation from the perspective of convex duality. Under a variety of settings, it is shown that the maximization problem that searches for the best two-point lower bound, upon dualizing, becomes a minimization problem minimizing an upper bound on the quadratic risk over a family of estimators. Since by the minimax theorem two problems have the same value, this value also characterizes (up to a universal factor) the optimal estimation rate. For estimating linear functionals of a distribution, our work strengthens prior results of Donoho–Liu (Ann. Statist. 19 (1991) 633–667) (for quadratic loss) by dropping the Hölderian assumption on the modulus of continuity. For exponential families, our results extend those of Juditsky–Nemirovski (Ann. Statist. 37 (2009) 2278–2300) by characterizing the minimax risk for the quadratic loss under weaker assumptions on the exponential family. We also provide an extension to the high-dimensional setting for estimating separable functionals. An application of our methodology to the area of “estimating the unseens” is provided in the companion paper (Polyanskiy and Wu (2023)), resolving the optimal rates (within logarithmic factors) of the distinct elements problem and Fisher’s species problem.