The Kernel distribution estimator of functions of random variables

Author: Mugdadi A. R.  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 1048-5252

Source: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Vol.17, Iss.7, 2005-10, pp. : 807-818

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Abstract

Let be identically and independently distributed (i.i.d.) observations on a random variable X with unknown distribution function F and density f . The kernel density estimate of the function was proposed by [Frees, E., 1994, Estimating densities of functions of observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association , 89, 517–525]. In this paper, we propose a kernel method to estimate the distribution function of the function and we derive the asymptotic mean-square error for the estimator. In addition, we propose two data-based methods to obtain the bandwidth.