Recursive kernel density estimators under missing data

Abstract

In this paper we propose an automatic bandwidth selection of the recursive kernel density estimators with missing data in the context of global and local density estimation. We showed that, using the selected bandwidth and a special stepsize, the proposed recursive estimators outperformed the nonrecursive one in terms of estimation error in the case of global estimation. However, the recursive estimators are much better in terms of computational costs. We corroborated these theoretical results through simulation studies and on the simulated data of the Aquitaine cohort of HIV-1 infected patients and on the coriell cell lines using the chromosome number 11.