Müller, Hans-Georg Adaptive nonparametric peak estimation. (English) Zbl 0683.62019 Ann. Stat. 17, No. 3, 1053-1069 (1989). Summary: It is shown that consistent estimates of the optimal bandwidths for kernel estimators of location and size of peak of a regression function are available. Such estimates yield the same joint asymptotic distribution of location and size of a peak as the optimal bandwidths themselves. Therefore data-adaptive efficient estimation of peaks is possible. In order to prove this result, the weak convergence of a two-dimensional stochastic process with appropriately scaled bandwidths as arguments to a Gaussian limiting process is shown. A practical method which leads to consistent estimates of the optimal bandwidths and is therefore asymptotically efficient is proposed and its finite sample properties are investigated by simulation. Cited in 28 Documents MSC: 62G05 Nonparametric estimation 60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems 62G20 Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference Keywords:nonparametric regression; consistent estimates of the optimal bandwidths; kernel estimators of location; size of a peak; data-adaptive efficient estimation of peaks; weak convergence; Gaussian limiting process; finite sample properties × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI