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Asymptotic near-efficiency of the "Gibbs-energy (GE) and empirical-variance" estimating functions for fitting Matérn models - II: Accounting for measurement errors via "conditional GE mean''

Didier A. Girard

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Consider one realization of a continuous-time Gaussian process $Z$ which belongs to the Mat\' ern family with known ``regularity'' index $\nu >0$. For estimating the autocorrelation-range and the variance of $Z$ from $n$ observations on a fine grid, we studied in Girard (2016) the GE-EV method which simply retains the empirical variance (EV) and equates it to a candidate ``Gibbs energy (GE)" i.e.~the quadratic form ${\bf z}^T R^{-1} {\bf z}/n$ where ${\bf z}$ is the vector of observations and $R$ is the autocorrelation matrix for ${\bf z}$ associated with a candidate range. The present study considers the case where the observation is ${\bf z}$ plus a Gaussian white noise whose variance is known. We propose to simply bias-correct EV and to replace GE by its conditional mean given the observation. We show that the ratio of the large-$n$ mean squared error of the resulting CGEM-EV estimate of the range-parameter to the one of its maximum likelihood estimate, and the analog ratio for the variance-parameter, have the same behavior than in the no-noise case: they both converge, when the grid-step tends to $0$, toward a constant, only function of $\nu$, surprisingly close to $1$ provided $\nu$ is not too large. We also obtain, for all $\nu$, convergence to 1 of the analog ratio for the microergodic-parameter.
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hal-00413693 , version 1 (05-09-2009)
hal-00413693 , version 2 (31-12-2011)
hal-00413693 , version 3 (07-06-2019)

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Didier A. Girard. Asymptotic near-efficiency of the "Gibbs-energy (GE) and empirical-variance" estimating functions for fitting Matérn models - II: Accounting for measurement errors via "conditional GE mean''. Statistics and Probability Letters, 2020, Statistics and Probability Letters, 162, pp.108726:1-11. ⟨10.1016/j.spl.2020.108726⟩. ⟨hal-00413693v3⟩
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