The present paper proposes generalization of the linear empirical Bayes
estimation method which takes advantage of the flexibility of the wavelet
techniques. We present an empirical Bayes estimator as a wavelet series
expansion and estimate coefficients by minimizing the prior risk of the
estimator. As a result, estimation of wavelet coefficients requires solution of
a well-posed low-dimensional sparse system of linear equations. The dimension
of the system depends on the size of wavelet support and smoothness of the
Bayes estimator.
In the present paper we consider Laplace deconvolution on the basis of
discrete noisy data observed on the interval which length may increase with a
sample size. Although this problem arises in a variety of applications, to the
best of our knowledge, it has not been systematically studied in statistical
literature and the present paper contributes to fill this gap. We derive an
adaptive kernel estimator of the function of interest, and establish its
asymptotic minimaxity over a range of Sobolev classes.
We consider the nonparametric regression estimation problem of recovering an
unknown response function $f$ on the basis of incomplete data when the design
points follow a known density $g$ with a finite number of well separated zeros.
In particular, we consider two different cases: when $g$ has zeros of a
polynomial order and when $g$ has zeros of an exponential order. These two
cases correspond to moderate and severe data losses, respectively.
We consider the problem of estimating the unknown response function in the
multichannel deconvolution model with a boxcar-like kernel which is of
particular interest in signal processing. It is known that, when the number of
channels is finite, the precision of reconstruction of the response function
increases as the number of channels $M$ grow (even when the total number of
observations $n$ for all channels $M$ remains constant) and this requires that
the parameter of the channels form a Badly Approximable $M$-tuple.
Using the asymptotical minimax framework, we examine convergence rates
equivalency between a continuous functional deconvolution model and its
real-life discrete counterpart, over a wide range of Besov balls and for the
$L^2$-risk. For this purpose, all possible models are divided into three
groups: {\it uniform}, {\it regular} and {\it irregular}. We formulate the
conditions when each of these situations takes place.