Adaptive thresholding for wavelet-based nonparametric heteroskedastic variance estimation on the sphere

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Durastanti, Claudio, Shevchenko, Radomyra
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915713958019072
author Durastanti, Claudio
Shevchenko, Radomyra
author_facet Durastanti, Claudio
Shevchenko, Radomyra
contents This paper investigates the nonparametric estimation of a heteroskedastic variance function on the sphere in a regression framework, assuming the variance belongs to a Besov regularity class. A needlet-based estimator is proposed, combining multiresolution analysis with hard thresholding. The method exploits the spatial and spectral localization of needlets to adapt to unknown smoothness and is shown to attain minimax-optimal convergence rates over Besov spaces.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2601_03920
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Adaptive thresholding for wavelet-based nonparametric heteroskedastic variance estimation on the sphere
Durastanti, Claudio
Shevchenko, Radomyra
Statistics Theory
62G08, 62G20, 65T60
This paper investigates the nonparametric estimation of a heteroskedastic variance function on the sphere in a regression framework, assuming the variance belongs to a Besov regularity class. A needlet-based estimator is proposed, combining multiresolution analysis with hard thresholding. The method exploits the spatial and spectral localization of needlets to adapt to unknown smoothness and is shown to attain minimax-optimal convergence rates over Besov spaces.
title Adaptive thresholding for wavelet-based nonparametric heteroskedastic variance estimation on the sphere
topic Statistics Theory
62G08, 62G20, 65T60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03920