Dirichlet kernel density estimation on the simplex with missing data
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| author | Daayeb, Hanen Jedidi, Wissem Khardani, Salah Lyu, Guanjie Ouimet, Frédéric |
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| contents | Nonparametric density estimation for compositional data supported on the simplex is examined under a missing at random mechanism. Rather than imputing missing values and estimating the density from a completed data set, we adopt a strategy based on inverse probability weighting. The proposed estimator uses an adaptive Dirichlet kernel, which ensures nonnegativity on the simplex and favorable behavior near the boundary. When the observation probabilities are unknown, they are estimated through a Nadaraya-Watson regression step. The large-sample properties of the estimator are derived, including pointwise bias and variance expansions, optimal smoothing rates, and asymptotic normality. A simulation study investigates its finite-sample performance under varying sample sizes and missing rates. Simulations show our method outperforms inverse-probability-weighted kernel density estimators based on additive and isometric log-ratio transformations of the data for certain target densities. The methodology is further illustrated through an application to leukocyte composition data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which allows for the identification of the modal immune profile in the sampled population. |
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| spellingShingle | Dirichlet kernel density estimation on the simplex with missing data Daayeb, Hanen Jedidi, Wissem Khardani, Salah Lyu, Guanjie Ouimet, Frédéric Methodology Statistics Theory Applications 62G07, 62E20, 62G05, 62G08, 62G20, 62H12 Nonparametric density estimation for compositional data supported on the simplex is examined under a missing at random mechanism. Rather than imputing missing values and estimating the density from a completed data set, we adopt a strategy based on inverse probability weighting. The proposed estimator uses an adaptive Dirichlet kernel, which ensures nonnegativity on the simplex and favorable behavior near the boundary. When the observation probabilities are unknown, they are estimated through a Nadaraya-Watson regression step. The large-sample properties of the estimator are derived, including pointwise bias and variance expansions, optimal smoothing rates, and asymptotic normality. A simulation study investigates its finite-sample performance under varying sample sizes and missing rates. Simulations show our method outperforms inverse-probability-weighted kernel density estimators based on additive and isometric log-ratio transformations of the data for certain target densities. The methodology is further illustrated through an application to leukocyte composition data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which allows for the identification of the modal immune profile in the sampled population. |
| title | Dirichlet kernel density estimation on the simplex with missing data |
| topic | Methodology Statistics Theory Applications 62G07, 62E20, 62G05, 62G08, 62G20, 62H12 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07447 |