WIAS Preprint No. 794, (2002)

On asymptotic minimaxity of kernel based tests



Authors

  • Ermakov, Mikhail S.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 62G10 62G20

Keywords

  • Nonparametric hypothesis testing, kernel-based-tests, goodness-of-fit, efficiency, kernel estimator

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.794

Abstract

In the problem of signal detection in Gaussian white noise we show asymptotic minimaxity of kernel-based tests. The test statistics equal L2-norms of kernel estimates. The sets of alternatives are essentially nonparametric and are defined as the sets of all signals such that L2-norms of signal smoothed by the kernels exceed some constants ρε > 0. The constant ρε depends on the power ε of noise and ρε → 0 as ε → 0. Similar statements are proved also if an additional information on a signal smoothness is given. By theorems on asymptotic equivalence of statistical experiments these results are extended on the problems of testing nonparametric hypothesis on density and regression. The exact asymptotically minimax lower bounds of type II error probabilities are pointed out for all these settings. Similar results are also obtained in the problems of testing parametric hypothesis versus nonparametric sets of alternatives.

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