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Nonparametric empirical bayes procedures, asymptotic optimality And rates Of convergence For two-tail tests In exponential family *  

Authors: R. S. Singh a;Wei Laisheng b
Affiliations:   a University of Guelph, Canada
b University of Science and Technology of China,
DOI: 10.1080/10485250008832819
Publication Frequency: 8 issues per year
Published in: journal Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Volume 12, Issue 4 2000 , pages 475 - 501
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Abstract

This paper provides nonparametric empirical Bayes (EB) solutions to two-tail test ./GNST_A_8832819_O_XML_IMAGES/GNST_A_8832819_O_ILM0001.gif  in the exponential family ./GNST_A_8832819_O_XML_IMAGES/GNST_A_8832819_O_ILM0002.gif , under the standard product loss function which is proportional to (θ-θ1) (θ-θ2) for incorrectly accepting H1. Based on empirical data X1,…Xn, and the present data X from ./GNST_A_8832819_O_XML_IMAGES/GNST_A_8832819_O_ILM0003.gif  nonparametric (in the sense that G is completely unknown and unspecified) EB test procedures are proposed. These procedures are asymptotically optimal (a.o.) whenever ./GNST_A_8832819_O_XML_IMAGES/GNST_A_8832819_O_ILM0004.gif  Further, for every integer s > 0 a class of non-parametric EB test procedures is proposed. These procedures are shown to be a.o. with rates ./GNST_A_8832819_O_XML_IMAGES/GNST_A_8832819_O_ILM0005.gif  for 0 < λ ≤ 2 satisfying certain conditions. Examples of exponential families and gamma densities are given where these conditions reduce to some simple moment conditions on G. No assumption on the smoothness of the function u(.), (and hence of the density function of X), is made at all for any of the results of this paper. By an example of a family of distributions, it is demonstrated that the rates arbitrarily close to o(n-1) can be attained by these procedures in some situations. It is noted, however, that the actual rates of convergence really depends on the nature of the unknown prior distribution G.
*Part of the research was carried out during the first author's visit to the University of Science and Technology of China. The research of the first author is supported in part by Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Grant No. A4631, and in part by a grant from the Science Foundation of Academia Sinica. The research of the second author is supported by the National Science Foundation of China.
Keywords: Empirical Bayes; two-tail test; exponential family; asymptotic optimality; convergence rates
AMS 1980 Subject Classifications: Primary: 62C12; Secondary: 63C10
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