THE INTEGRATED MEAN SQUARED ERROR OF SERIES REGRESSION AND A ROSENTHAL HILBERT-SPACE INEQUALITY

Abstract

This paper develops uniform approximations for the integrated mean squared error (IMSE) of nonparametric series regression estimators, including both least-squares and averaging least-squares estimators. To develop these approximations, we also generalize an important probability inequality of Rosenthal (1970, Israel Journal of Mathematics 8, 273–303; 1972, Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, vol. 2, pp. 149–167. University of California Press) to the case of Hilbert-space valued random variables.