Estimating the Ratio of Two Functions in a Nonparametric Regression Model

preprint2013arXivOpen access

Abstract

Due to measurement noise, a common problem in in various fields is how to estimate the ratio of two functions. We consider this problem of estimating the ratio of two functions in a nonparametric regression model. Assuming the noise is normally distributed, this is equivalent to estimating the ratio of the means of two normally distributed random variables. We identified a consistent estimator that gives the mean squared loss of order O(1/n)O(1/n) (nn is the sample size) when conditioned on a highly probable event. We also present our result applied to both the real data from EAPS and on simulated data, confirming our theoretical results.

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