OurBigBook About$ Donate
 Sign in Sign up

Spike obstruction to density-power differentiability

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Mathematics Area of mathematics Probability and statistics Statistical inference Statistical functional Density fourth-power functional
2026-10-07  0 By others on same topic  0 Discussions Create my own version
A perturbation can have negligible Hellinger distance but a large integral of its density's fourth power. At the uniform density on [0,1], let b(s)=6s(1−s) on [0,1] and zero elsewhere, and let ft​(u)=1−t4+t−2b(u/t6). Then ∫ft​=1 and ∫(ft​​−1)2≤2t4=o(t2), so the score function is zero. However ∫ft4​≥72/(35t2). Thus the density fourth-power functional is not continuous along this differentiable-in-quadratic-mean path, despite a bounded baseline and individually bounded nearby densities.

 Ancestors (7)

  1. Density fourth-power functional
  2. Statistical functional
  3. Statistical inference
  4. Probability and statistics
  5. Area of mathematics
  6. Mathematics
  7.  Home

 Incoming links (2)

  • Density fourth-power functional
  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2012 / iii / Paper 36 / 2 / e / Solution

 View article source

 Discussion (0)

New discussion

There are no discussions about this article yet.

 Articles by others on the same topic (0)

There are currently no matching articles.
  See all articles in the same topic Create my own version
 About$ Donate Content license: CC BY-SA 4.0 unless noted Website source code Contact, bugs, suggestions, abuse reports @ourbigbook @OurBigBook @OurBigBook