Wavelet estimations of a density function in two-class mixture model

Abstract

This paper considers nonparametric estimations of a density function in a two-class mixture model. A linear wavelet estimator and an adaptive wavelet estimator are constructed. Upper bound estimations over $ L^{p}\; (1\leq p < +\infty) $ risk of those wavelet estimators are proved in Besov spaces. When $ \tilde{p}\geq p\geq1 $, the convergence rate of adaptive wavelet estimator is the same as the linear estimator up to a $ \ln n $ factor. The adaptive wavelet estimator can get better than the linear estimator in the case of $ 1\leq \tilde{p} < p $. Finally, some numerical experiments are presented to validate the theoretical results.