Nonparametric Regression in Natural Exponential Families
Tony Cai and Harrison Zhou
In this paper we extend the scope of Brown, Cai and Zhou (2010) to general natural exponential families by introducing a new explicit procedure that is based on the variance stabilizing transformation. The new approach significantly reduces the bias of the inverse transformation and as a consequence it enables the method to be applicable to a wider class of exponential families. Combining this procedure with a wavelet block thresholding estimator for Gaussian nonparametric regression, we show that the resulting estimator enjoys a high degree of adaptivity and spatial adaptivity with near-optimal asymptotic performance over a broad range of Besov spaces.
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