Sequential confidence bands for densities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Xu, Y; Martinsek, AT
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0090-5364
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 2218-2240
• 关键词: Approximation

摘要

This paper proposes a fully sequential procedure for constructing a fixed-width confidence band for an unknown density on a finite interval and shows the procedure has the desired coverage probability asymptotically as the width of the band approaches zero. The procedure is based on a result-of Bickel and Rosenblatt. Its implementation in the sequential setting cannot be obtained using Anscombe's theorem, because the normalized maximal deviations between the kernel estimate and the true density are not uniformly continuous in probability (u.c.i.p.). Instead, we obtain a slightly weaker version of the u.c.i.p. property and a correspondingly stronger convergence property of the stopping rule, These together yield the desired results.