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Let a density f on R d be estimated by f n(x, X 1, ..., X n) where x∈R d, f n is a Borel measurable function of its arguments, and X 1, ..., X n are independent random vectors with common density f. Let p≧1 be a constant. One of the main results of this note is that for every sequence f n, and for every positive number sequence a n satisfying lim a n=0, there exists an f such that
infinitely often.
Here it suffices to look at all the f that are bounded by 2 and vanish outside [0, 1]d. For p=1, f can always be restricted to the class of infinitely many times continuously differentiable densities with all derivatives absolutely bounded and absolutely integrable.
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Devroye, L. On arbitrarily slow rates of global convergence in density estimation. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 62, 475–483 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00534199
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