Nonparametric estimation for stationary and strongly mixing processes on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, nonparametric estimation for a stationary strongly mixing and manifold-valued process $(X_j)$ is considered. In this non-Euclidean and not necessarily i.i.d setting, we propose kernel density estimators of the joint probability density function, of the conditional probability density functions and of the conditional expectations of functionals of $X_j$ given the past behavior of the process. We prove the strong consistency of these estimators under sufficient conditions, and we illustrate their performance through simulation studies and real data analysis.

Keywords

Riemannian manifolds / Nonparametric estimation / Kernel density estimation / Stationary and strongly mixing processes / Strong consistency

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