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June, 1993 Nearest Neighbor Regression with Heavy-Tailed Errors
Hari Mukerjee
Ann. Statist. 21(2): 681-693 (June, 1993). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176349144

Abstract

There has been an increasing interest in modelling regression with heavy-tailed conditional error distributions, mostly in the parametric setting. Nonparametric regression procedures have been studied almost exclusively for the cases where the conditional variance of the regressed variable is finite in the region of interest. We initiate a study of the infinite variance case. Some results in strong uniform consistency of the nearest neighbor estimator with rates are proven. The technique used provides new results and insights when higher conditional moments exist. Some asymptotic distribution theory has also been obtained when the conditional errors are in the domain of attraction of a stable law.

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Hari Mukerjee. "Nearest Neighbor Regression with Heavy-Tailed Errors." Ann. Statist. 21 (2) 681 - 693, June, 1993. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176349144

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Published: June, 1993
First available in Project Euclid: 12 April 2007

zbMATH: 0779.62036
MathSciNet: MR1232512
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1176349144

Subjects:
Primary: 60F15
Secondary: 62G05 , 62G15

Keywords: confidence intervals , Convergence rates , heavy-tailed distributions , Nearest neighbor regression , Stable distributions , strong consistency

Rights: Copyright © 1993 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.21 • No. 2 • June, 1993
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