Empirical likelihood confidence tubes for functional parameters in plug-in estimation

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• 作者：Davit Varron ^{davit.varron@univ-fcomte.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：62G15 ; 62H12 ; 62N01
• 刊名：Journal of Multivariate Analysis
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：152
• 期：Complete
• 页码：100-118
• 全文大小：549 K

文摘

We consider the infinite-dimensional inference problem in which the parameter of interest is a multivariate trajectory that can be written as an explicit functional T$T$ of a number of probability distributions. We propose an empirical likelihood procedure to build simultaneous confidence regions for these trajectories. Our main assumption is the Hadamard differentiability of T$T$ under norms adapted to empirical measures, i.e., supremum norms indexed by Donsker classes of functions. In order to handle practical computational issues, the proposed method, which we prove to be consistent, is based on a first order expansion of T$T$. We also prove a general result of independent interest in empirical likelihood theory. Three applications are provided.