Multiscale inference and long‐run variance estimation in non‐parametric regression with time series errors

Nonparametric regression with rescaled time series errors

We consider a heteroscedastic nonparametric regression model with an autoregressive error process of finite known order p. The heteroscedasticity is incorporated using a scaling function defined at uniformly spaced design points on an interval [0,1]. We provide an innovative nonparametric estimator of the variance function and establish its consistency and asymptotic normality. We also propose ...

Variance Estimation in Time Series Regression Models

Estimation in Nonparametric Regression with Nonregular Errors

For sufficiently nonregular distributions with bounded support, the extreme observations converge to the boundary points at a faster rate than the square root of the sample size. In a nonparametric regression model with such a nonregular error distribution, this fact can be used to construct an estimator for the regression function that converges at a faster rate than the Nadaraya– Watson estim...

Nonparametric Inference Relative Errors of Difference-Based Variance Estimators in Nonparametric Regression

Difference-based estimators for the error variance are popular since they do not require the estimation of the mean function. Unlike most existing difference-based estimators, new estimators proposed by Müller et al. (2003) and Tong and Wang (2005) achieved the asymptotic optimal rate as residual-based estimators. In this article, we study the relative errors of these difference-based estimator...

Variance Function Estimation in Multivariate Nonparametric Regression

Variance function estimation in multivariate nonparametric regression is considered and the minimax rate of convergence is established. Our work uses the approach that generalizes the one used in Munk et al (2005) for the constant variance case. As is the case when the number of dimensions d = 1, and very much contrary to the common practice, it is often not desirable to base the estimator of t...