2014/08/18 by Holger Drees, Natalie Neumeyer, Drees, Holger +3
Mathematics · #62G08 (Primary) 62G10 #62G20 (Secondary) #Advanced Statistical Methods and Models #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #Statistical Methods and Inference #Statistics Theory (math.ST)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.3979
openalex publication_date 2014/08/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Consider a nonparametric regression model with one-sided errors and regression function in a general Hölder class. We estimate the regression function via minimization of the local integral of a polynomial approximation. We show uniform rates of convergence for the simple regression estimator as well as for a smooth version. These rates carry over to mean regression models with a symmetric and bounded error distribution. In such a setting, one obtains faster rates for irregular error distributions concentrating sufficient mass near the endpoints than for the usual regular distributions. The results are applied to prove asymptotic √(n)-equivalence of a residual-based (sequential) empirical distribution function to the (sequential) empirical distribution function of unobserved errors in the case of irregular error distributions. This result is remarkably different from corresponding results in mean regression with regular errors. It can readily be applied to develop goodness-of-fit tests for the error distribution. We present some examples and investigate the small sample performance in a simulation study. We further discuss asymptotically distribution-free hypotheses tests for independence of the error distribution from the points of measurement and for monotonicity of the boundary function as well.