A law of the iterated logarithm for Grenander's estimator

Abstract

In this note we prove the following law of the iterated logarithm for the Grenander estimator of a monotone decreasing density: If $f(t_0)>0$, $f^{\prime }(t_0)<0$, and $f^{\prime }$ is continuous in a neighborhood of $t_0$, then \begin{eqnarray*} \limsup_{n\rightarrow \infty} \left ( \frac{n}{2\log \log n} \right )^{1/3} ( \widehat{f}_n (t_0 ) - f(t_0) ) = \left| f(t_0) f'(t_0)/2 \right|^{1/3} 2M \end{eqnarray*} almost surely where $M\equiv {\sup }_{g\in \mathcal{G}}{T}_g=(3/4{)}^{1/3}$ and $ T_g \equiv \mbox{argmax}_u \{ g(u) - u^2 \} $; here $\mathcal{G}$ is the two-sided Strassen limit set on $R$. The proof relies on laws of the iterated logarithm for local empirical processes, Groeneboom's switching relation, and properties of Strassen's limit set analogous to distributional properties of Brownian motion.

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