Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/43977
 Title: Exact and Asymptotically Optimal Bandwidths for Kernel Estimation of Density Functionals Authors: Chacón, José E. Tenreiro, Carlos Issue Date: 2011 Project: CMUC/FCT Serial title, monograph or event: Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Abstract: Given a density $f$ we pose the problem of estimating the density functional $\psi_r=\int f^{(r)}f$ for a non-negative even $r$ making use of kernel methods. This is a well-known problem but some of its features remained unexplored. We focus on the problem of bandwidth selection. Whereas all the previous studies concentrate on an asymptotically optimal bandwidth here we study the properties of exact, non-asymptotic ones, and relate them with the former. Our main conclusion is that, despite being asymptotically equivalent, for realistic sample sizes much is lost by using the asymptotically optimal bandwidth. In contrast, as a target for data-driven selectors we propose another bandwidth which retains the small sample performance of the exact one. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/43977 Other Identifiers: 10.1007/s11009-011-9243-x Rights: embargoedAccess Appears in Collections: I&D CMUC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais

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