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Density estimation of a mixture distribution with unknown point-mass and normal error

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2021
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Dang Duc Trong
Nguyen Hoang Thanh
Nguyen Dang Minh
Nguyen Nhu Lan
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We consider the model Y = X + ξ where Y is observable, ξ is a noise random variable with density fξ , X has an unknown mixed density such that P(X = Xc ) = 1 − p, P(X = a) = p with Xc being continuous and p ∈ (0, 1), a ∈ R. Typically, in the last decade, the model has been widely considered in a number of papers for the case of fully known quantities a, fξ . In this paper, we relax the assumptions and consider the parametric error ξ ∼ σN(0, 1) with an unknown σ > 0. From i.i.d. copies Y1, . . . , Ym of Y we will estimate (σ, p, a, fXc ) where fXc is the density of Xc . We also find the lower bound of convergence rate and verify the minimax property of established estimators.
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Deconvolution, Mixture distribution, Inversion problems, Nonparametric estimation
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