This paper proposes a fully sequential procedure for constructing a fixed-width confidence band for an unknown density on a finite interval and shows the procedure has the desired coverage probability asymptotically as the width of the band approaches zero. The procedure is based on a result of Bickel and Rosenblatt. Its implementation in the sequential setting cannot be obtained using Anscombe's theorem, because the normalized maximal deviations between the kernel estimate and the true density are not uniformly continuous in probability (u.c.i.p.). Instead, we obtain a slightly weaker version of the u.c.i.p. property and a correspondingly stronger convergence property of the stopping rule. These together yield the desired results.
Publié le : 1995-12-14
Classification:
Density estimation,
confidence band,
sequential estimation,
stopping rule,
uniform continuity in probability,
62L12,
62G07,
62G20
@article{1034713654,
author = {Xu, Yi and Martinsek, Adam T.},
title = {Sequential confidence bands for densities},
journal = {Ann. Statist.},
volume = {23},
number = {6},
year = {1995},
pages = { 2218-2240},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1034713654}
}
Xu, Yi; Martinsek, Adam T. Sequential confidence bands for densities. Ann. Statist., Tome 23 (1995) no. 6, pp. 2218-2240. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1034713654/