Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of Derivatives in Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Ruiqi, Li, Kexuan, Li, Meng
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author Liu, Ruiqi
Li, Kexuan
Li, Meng
author_facet Liu, Ruiqi
Li, Kexuan
Li, Meng
contents Within the framework of smoothing spline ANOVA, we propose a plug-in kernel ridge regression estimator to estimate the derivatives of the underlying multivariate regression function. We first establish an $L_\infty$ convergence rate of the proposed estimator under general random designs. When the covariates are uniformly distributed, we provide a in-depth analysis that includes a sharp upper bound and the minimax lower bound of the $L_2$ convergence rate. Additionally, motivated by a wide range of applications, we propose a hypothesis testing procedure to examine whether a derivative is zero. Theoretical results demonstrate that the proposed testing procedure achieves the correct size under the null hypothesis and is asymptotically powerful under local alternatives. For ease of use, we also develop an associated bootstrap algorithm to construct the rejection region and calculate p-value, and the consistency of the proposed algorithm is established. Simulation studies using synthetic data and an application to a real-world dataset confirm the effectiveness of our approach.
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spellingShingle Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of Derivatives in Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models
Liu, Ruiqi
Li, Kexuan
Li, Meng
Methodology
Statistics Theory
62G10, 62G20
Within the framework of smoothing spline ANOVA, we propose a plug-in kernel ridge regression estimator to estimate the derivatives of the underlying multivariate regression function. We first establish an $L_\infty$ convergence rate of the proposed estimator under general random designs. When the covariates are uniformly distributed, we provide a in-depth analysis that includes a sharp upper bound and the minimax lower bound of the $L_2$ convergence rate. Additionally, motivated by a wide range of applications, we propose a hypothesis testing procedure to examine whether a derivative is zero. Theoretical results demonstrate that the proposed testing procedure achieves the correct size under the null hypothesis and is asymptotically powerful under local alternatives. For ease of use, we also develop an associated bootstrap algorithm to construct the rejection region and calculate p-value, and the consistency of the proposed algorithm is established. Simulation studies using synthetic data and an application to a real-world dataset confirm the effectiveness of our approach.
title Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of Derivatives in Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models
topic Methodology
Statistics Theory
62G10, 62G20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13905