It is pointed out that a strong law of large numbers for L-statistics established by van Zwet (1980) for i.i.d. sequences, remains valid for stationary ergodic data. When the underlying process is weakly Bernoulli, the result extends even to generalized L-statistics considered in Helmers et al. (1988).

The testing of the null hypothesis of no treatment effect against the alternative of increasing treatment effect by means of rank statistics is extended from the classical Friedman random blocks model into an unbalanced design allowing treatments not to be applied simultaneously in each random block. The asymptotic normality of the constructed rank test statistic is proved both in the setting not allowing ties and also for models with presence of ties. As a by-product of the proofs a multiple comparisons...

We investigate the estimation of a multidimensional regression function $f$ from $n$ observations of an $\alpha$-mixing process $(Y,X)$, where $Y=f\left(X\right)+\xi$, $X$ represents the design and $\xi$ the noise. We concentrate on wavelet methods. In most papers considering this problem, either the proposed wavelet estimator is not adaptive (i.e., it depends on the knowledge of the smoothness of $f$ in its construction) or it is supposed that $\xi$ is bounded or/and has a known distribution. In this paper, we go far beyond this classical framework....

Explicit formulas for the non-centrality parameters of the limiting chi-square distribution of proposed multisample rank based test statistics, aimed at testing the hypothesis of the simultaneous equality of location and scale parameters of underlying populations, are obtained by means of a general assertion concerning the location-scale test statistics. The finite sample behaviour of the proposed tests is discussed and illustrated by simulation estimates of the rejection probabilities. A modification...

We consider an estimate of the mode $\theta$ of a multivariate probability density $f$ with support in ${ℝ}^d$ using a kernel estimate $f_n$ drawn from a sample $X_1,\cdots ,X_n$. The estimate ${\theta }_n$ is defined as any $x$ in $\{X_1,\cdots ,X_n\}$ such that $f_n\left(x\right)={max}_{i=1,\cdots ,n}{f}_n\left(X_i\right)$. It is shown that ${\theta }_n$ behaves asymptotically as any maximizer ${\widehat{\theta }}_n$ of $f_n$. More precisely, we prove that for any sequence ${\left(r_n\right)}_{n\ge 1}$ of positive real numbers such that $r_n\to \infty$ and $r_n^{d}logn/n\to 0$, one has $r_n\parallel {\theta }_n-{\widehat{\theta }}_n\parallel \to 0$ in probability. The asymptotic normality of ${\theta }_n$ follows without further work.

We consider an estimate of the mode θ of a multivariate probability density f with support in ${ℝ}^d$ using a kernel estimate fn drawn from a sample X1,...,Xn. The estimate θn is defined as any x in {X1,...,Xn} such that $f_n\left(x\right)={max}_{i=1,\cdots ,n}{f}_n\left(X_i\right)$. It is shown that θn behaves asymptotically as any maximizer ${\widehat{\theta }}_n$ of fn. More precisely, we prove that for any sequence ${\left(r_n\right)}_{n\ge 1}$ of positive real numbers such that $r_n\to \infty$ and $r_n^{d}logn/n\to 0$, one has $r_n\parallel {\theta }_n-{\widehat{\theta }}_n\parallel \to 0$ in probability. The asymptotic normality of θn follows without further work.

In the article, we consider construction of prediction intervals for stationary time series using Bühlmann's [8], [9] sieve bootstrapapproach. Basic theoretical properties concerning consistency are proved. We extend the results obtained earlier by Stine [21], Masarotto and Grigoletto [13] for an autoregressive time series of finite order to the rich class of linear and invertible stationary models. Finite sample performance of the constructed intervals is investigated by computer simulations.

An asymptotic local power of Pearson chi-squared tests is considered, based on convex mixtures of the null densities with fixed alternative densities when the mixtures tend to the null densities for sample sizes $n\to \infty .$ This local power is used to compare the tests with fixed partitions $𝒫$ of the observation space of small partition sizes $\left|𝒫\right|$ with the tests whose partitions $𝒫={𝒫}_n$ depend on $n$ and the partition sizes $|{𝒫}_n|$ tend to infinity for $n\to \infty$. New conditions are presented under which it is asymptotically optimal...

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 62G07, 62L20.Tsybakov [31] introduced the method of stochastic approximation to construct a recursive estimator of the location q of the mode of a probability density. The aim of this paper is to provide a companion algorithm to Tsybakov's algorithm, which allows to simultaneously recursively approximate the size m of the mode. We provide a precise study of the joint weak convergence rate of both estimators. Moreover, we introduce the averaging principle...

For the Bickel-Rosenblatt goodness-of-fit test with fixed bandwidth studied by Fan (1998) we derive its Bahadur exact slopes in a neighbourhood of a simple hypothesis f = f0 and we use them to get a better understanding on the role played by the smoothing parameter in the detection of departures from the null hypothesis. When f0 is an univariate normal distribution and we take for kernel the standard normal density function, we compute these slopes for a set of Edgeworth alternatives which give...

We consider, in the framework of multidimensional observations, nonparametric functional estimators, which include, as special cases, the Akaike–Parzen–Rosenblatt kernel density estimators ([1, 18, 20]), and the Nadaraya–Watson kernel regression estimators ([16, 22]). We evaluate the sup-norm, over a given set $𝐈$, of the difference between the estimator and a non-random functional centering factor (which reduces to the estimator mean for kernel density estimation). We show that, under suitable general...

In order to calibrate a penalization procedure for model selection, the statistician has to choose a shape for the penalty and a leading constant. In this paper, we study, for the marginal density estimation problem, the resampling penalties as general estimators of the shape of an ideal penalty. We prove that the selected estimator satisfies sharp oracle inequalities without remainder terms under a few assumptions on the marginal density $s$ and the collection of models. We also study the slope heuristic,...

The problem of nonparametric function fitting using the complete orthogonal system of Whittaker cardinal functions $s_k$, k = 0,±1,..., for the observation model $y_j=f\left(u_j\right)+{\eta }_j$, j = 1,...,n, is considered, where f ∈ L²(ℝ) ∩ BL(Ω) for Ω > 0 is a band-limited function, $u_j$ are independent random variables uniformly distributed in the observation interval [-T,T], ${\eta }_j$ are uncorrelated or correlated random variables with zero mean value and finite variance, independent of the observation points. Conditions for convergence...