Author

Souad Sosa

ORCID Identifier(s)

0000-0001-7839-7587

Graduation Semester and Year

2020

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics

Department

Mathematics

First Advisor

Shan Sun-Mitchell

Abstract

To estimate an unknown density when observed measurements are from the convolution model contaminated by additive measurement errors, Stefanski and Carroll (1990) proposed using Fourier inversion on the product of Fourier transform of a kernel function and the characteristic function of the error variable. One important element in constructing such a density estimator is the bandwidth. The goal of this research is to establish an optimal bandwidth so that the mean integrated squared error of the estimator is minimized. The bootstrap method is used to accomplish this goal. The simulation results show that the estimated optimal bandwidths provide adequate estimation to the unknown densities.

Keywords

Deconvolving kernel density estimator, Optimal bandwidth, Bootstrap

Disciplines

Mathematics | Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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Mathematics Commons

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