In the random coefficients binary choice model, a binary variable equals 1 iff an index $X^{\top}\beta$ is positive. The vectors $X$ and $\beta$ are independent and belong to the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. We prove lower bounds on the minimax risk for estimation of the density $f_{\beta}$ over Besov bodies where the loss is a power of the $\mathrm{L}^{p}(\mathbb{S}^{d-1})$ norm for $1\le p\le \infty$. We show that a hard thresholding estimator based on a needlet expansion with data-driven thresholds achieves these lower bounds up to logarithmic factors.
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