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HuberSpline: Huber (1974) Minimal Fisher (location) information spline via conic optimization

Description

$$\min \sum \frac{(f_{i+1}-f_i )^2}{( f_{i+1}+f_i )/2} = \sum \frac{u_i^2}{v_i/2} \approx I(F)$$

Usage

HuberSpline(x, p, grid, kappa = 0)

Value

An object of class density with solution \(f*\)

Arguments

x

quantiles to be interpolated

p

probabilities associated with x

grid

grid values for fitted object

kappa

width of Kolmogorov neighborhood

Author

R. Koenker and J. Gu

Details

$$\Leftrightarrow \quad \min \sum w_i \; \mbox{s.t.} \; u_i^2 \leq 2 v_i w_i$$

subject to interpolation of constraints \(F(x_j) = p_j, \; j=1,...,n.\) When \(\kappa > 0\), \(I(F)\) is minimized within a Kolmogorov neighborhood of the constraint points, rather than interpolating them. The generalization to Kolmogorov neighborhoods is due to Donoho and Reeves (2013).

N.B. When the grid is not equispaced, one would have to include grid spacings.

References

P. J. Huber. (1974) "Fisher Information and Spline Interpolation." Ann. Statist. 2 (5) 1029 - 1033,

D. L. Donoho and G. Reeves, (2013) Achieving Bayes MMSE Performance in the Sparse Signal Gaussian White Noise Model when the Noise Level is Unknown, Proc. IEEE Symposium Istanbul, Turkey.