Differentiability of M-functionals of location and scatter based on t likelihoods

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dc.creatorDudley, R. M.
dc.creatorSidenko, Sergiy
dc.creatorWang, Zuoqin
dc.date2008-01-19
dc.date2009-03-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:53:20Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:53:20Z
dc.descriptionThe paper aims at finding widely and smoothly defined nonparametric location and scatter functionals. As a convenient vehicle, maximum likelihood estimation of the location vector m and scatter matrix S of an elliptically symmetric t distribution on d-dimensional space with degrees of freedom larger than 1 extends to an M-functional defined on all probability distributions P in a weakly open, weakly dense domain U. Here U consists of P not putting too much mass in hyperplanes of dimension < d, as shown for empirical measures by Kent and Tyler, Ann. Statist. 1991. It is shown here that (m,S) is analytic on U, for the bounded Lipschitz norm, or for d=1, for the sup norm on distribution functions. For k=1,2,..., and other norms, depending on k and more directly adapted to t functionals, one has continuous differentiability of order k, allowing the delta-method to be applied to (m,S) for any P in U, which can be arbitrarily heavy-tailed. These results imply asymptotic normality of the corresponding M-estimators (m_n,S_n). In dimension d=1 only, the t functionals extend to be defined and weakly continuous at all t.
dc.description47 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3052
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3052
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/223589
dc.subjectStatistics Theory
dc.titleDifferentiability of M-functionals of location and scatter based on t likelihoods
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