Conjecture on the block max-min estimator's pivotal limit distribution

From papers

Let f0f_0 be the monotone regression function, let x0x_0 be the point of inference, and let f^n(x0)\widehat{f}_n^{-}(x_0) be the block max-min estimator with associated block count nu^,v^(x0)n_{\widehat{u},\widehat{v}}^{-}(x_0). Let σ\sigma denote the noise standard deviation, and let α\bm{\alpha} and K(f0,x0)K(f_0,x_0) be as in Theorem. Under the same settings as that theorem, there is a finite random variable Lα\mathbb{L}_{\bm{\alpha}}^{-} that does not depend on K(f0,x0)K(f_0,x_0). Block max-min pivotal-limit conjecture.

nu^,v^(x0)(f^n(x0)f0(x0))σLα.\sqrt{n_{\widehat{u},\widehat{v}}^{-}(x_0)}\big(\widehat{f}_n^{-}(x_0)-f_0(x_0)\big)\rightsquigarrow \sigma\cdot \mathbb{L}_{\bm{\alpha}}^{-}.

If true, this would provide an asymptotic pivotal quantity for confidence intervals based on the block max-min estimator alone, potentially reducing the computational cost relative to the block average procedure. The source gives no resolution of this conjecture.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Hang Deng, Qiyang Han and Cun-Hui Zhang, “Confidence intervals for multiple isotonic regression and other monotone models”, arXiv:2001.07064 (2020).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.