Consistency of Robust Kernel Density Estimators
author: Robert A. Vandermeulen,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
published: Aug. 9, 2013, recorded: June 2013, views: 2852
published: Aug. 9, 2013, recorded: June 2013, views: 2852
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The kernel density estimator (KDE) based on a radial positive-semidefinite kernel may be viewed as a sample mean in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. This mean can be viewed as the solution of a least squares problem in that space. Replacing the squared loss with a robust loss yields a robust kernel density estimator (RKDE). Previous work has shown that RKDEs are weighted kernel density estimators which have desirable robustness properties. In this paper we establish asymptotic L1 consistency of the RKDE for a class of losses and show that the RKDE converges with the same rate on bandwidth required for the traditional KDE. We also present a novel proof of the consistency of the traditional KDE.
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