Information bounds for inference in stochastic evolution equations observed under noise
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| author | Pasemann, Gregor Reiß, Markus |
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| contents | We consider statistics for stochastic evolution equations in Hilbert space with emphasis on stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). We observe a solution process under additional measurement errors and want to estimate a real or functional parameter in the drift. Main targets of estimation are the diffusivity, transport or source coefficient in a parabolic SPDE. By bounding the Hellinger distance between observation laws under different parameters we derive lower bounds on the estimation error, which reveal the underlying information structure. The estimation rates depend on the measurement noise level, the observation time, the covariance of the dynamic noise, the dimension and the order, at which the parametrised coefficient appears in the differential operator. A general estimation procedure attains these rates in many parametric cases and proves their minimax optimality. For nonparametric estimation problems, where the parameter is an unknown function, the lower bounds exhibit an even more complex information structure. The proofs are to a large extent based on functional calculus, perturbation theory and monotonicity of the semigroup generators. |
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| spellingShingle | Information bounds for inference in stochastic evolution equations observed under noise Pasemann, Gregor Reiß, Markus Statistics Theory 46N30, 60H15, 62G20 We consider statistics for stochastic evolution equations in Hilbert space with emphasis on stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). We observe a solution process under additional measurement errors and want to estimate a real or functional parameter in the drift. Main targets of estimation are the diffusivity, transport or source coefficient in a parabolic SPDE. By bounding the Hellinger distance between observation laws under different parameters we derive lower bounds on the estimation error, which reveal the underlying information structure. The estimation rates depend on the measurement noise level, the observation time, the covariance of the dynamic noise, the dimension and the order, at which the parametrised coefficient appears in the differential operator. A general estimation procedure attains these rates in many parametric cases and proves their minimax optimality. For nonparametric estimation problems, where the parameter is an unknown function, the lower bounds exhibit an even more complex information structure. The proofs are to a large extent based on functional calculus, perturbation theory and monotonicity of the semigroup generators. |
| title | Information bounds for inference in stochastic evolution equations observed under noise |
| topic | Statistics Theory 46N30, 60H15, 62G20 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14051 |