## Bernoulli

• Bernoulli
• Volume 12, Number 4 (2006), 609-632.

### Nonlinear estimation over weak Besov spaces and minimax Bayes method

Vincent Rivoirard

#### Abstract

Weak Besov spaces play an important role in statistics as maxisets of classical procedures or for measuring the sparsity of signals. The goal of this paper is to study weak Besov balls $WB s ,p,q (C)$ from the statistical point of view by using the minimax Bayes method. In particular, we compare weak and strong Besov balls statistically. By building an optimal Bayes wavelet thresholding rule, we first establish that, under suitable conditions, the rate of convergence of the minimax risk for $WB s ,p,q (C)$ is the same as for the strong Besov ball $B s ,p,q (C)$ that is contained in $WB s ,p,q (C)$. However, we show that the asymptotically least favourable priors of $WB s ,p,q (C)$ that are based on Pareto distributions cannot be asymptotically least favourable priors for $B s ,p,q (C)$. Finally, we present sample paths of such priors that provide representations of the worst functions to be estimated for classical procedures and we give an interpretation of the roles of the parameters $s$, $p$ and $q$ of $WB s ,p,q (C)$.

#### Article information

Source
Bernoulli, Volume 12, Number 4 (2006), 609-632.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 16 August 2006

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1155735929

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3150/bj/1155735929

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2248230

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1125.62001

#### Citation

Rivoirard, Vincent. Nonlinear estimation over weak Besov spaces and minimax Bayes method. Bernoulli 12 (2006), no. 4, 609--632. doi:10.3150/bj/1155735929. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1155735929

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