Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Consistency of Generalized M-Estimates.
New estimates and tests of independence in semiparametric copula models
We introduce new estimates and tests of independence in copula models with unknown margins using -divergences and the duality technique. The asymptotic laws of the estimates and the test statistics are established both when the parameter is an interior or a boundary value of the parameter space. Simulation results show that the choice of -divergence has good properties in terms of efficiency-robustness.
New M-estimators in semi-parametric regression with errors in variables
In the regression model with errors in variables, we observe n i.i.d. copies of (Y, Z) satisfying Y=fθ0(X)+ξ and Z=X+ɛ involving independent and unobserved random variables X, ξ, ɛ plus a regression function fθ0, known up to a finite dimensional θ0. The common densities of the Xi’s and of the ξi’s are unknown, whereas the distribution of ɛ is completely known. We aim at estimating the parameter θ0 by using the observations (Y1, Z1), …, (Yn, Zn). We propose an estimation procedure based on the least...
Nonnegative multivariate processes
Nonparametric estimation of the ratios of derivatives of a multivariate distribution density from dependent observations.
Note on dispersion of .
Note on Dispersion of Xalpha
Number of hidden states and memory: a joint order estimation problem for Markov chains with Markov regime
This paper deals with order identification for Markov chains with Markov regime (MCMR) in the context of finite alphabets. We define the joint order of a MCMR process in terms of the number k of states of the hidden Markov chain and the memory m of the conditional Markov chain. We study the properties of penalized maximum likelihood estimators for the unknown order (k, m) of an observed MCMR process, relying on information theoretic arguments. The novelty of our work relies in the joint...