Nonparametric estimation of a density from contaminated data is a difficult problem, for which convergence rates are notoriously slow. We introduce parametrically assisted nonparametric estimators which can dramatically improve on the performance of standard nonparametric estimators when the...

We consider classification of functional data when the training curves are not observed on the same interval. Different types of classifier are suggested, one of which involves a new curve extension procedure. Our approach enables us to exploit the information contained in the endpoints of these...

We consider estimation for a class of Lévy processes, modelled as a sum of a drift, a symmetric stable process and a compound Poisson process. We propose a nonparametric approach to estimating unknown parameters of our model, including the drift, the scale and index parameters in the stable...

type="main" xml:id="rssb12067-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Errors-in-variables regression is important in many areas of science and social science, e.g. in economics where it is often a feature of hedonic models, in environmental science where air quality indices are measured with error, in biology where...</p>

We suggest two new methods, which are applicable to both deconvolution and regression with errors in explanatory variables, for nonparametric inference. The two approaches involve kernel or orthogonal series methods. They are based on defining a low order approximation to the problem at hand,...