Statistics Theory

Authors and titles for math.ST in Oct 2023

[1]  arXiv:2310.00097 [pdf, other]

Title: Pointwise uncertainty quantification for sparse variational Gaussian process regression with a Brownian motion prior

Authors: Luke Travis, Kolyan Ray

Comments: 24 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2023)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[2]  arXiv:2310.00176 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Universality of max-margin classifiers

Authors: Andrea Montanari, Feng Ruan, Basil Saeed, Youngtak Sohn

Comments: 60 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[3]  arXiv:2310.00211 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Theoretical Foundations of Ordinal Multidimensional Scaling, Including Internal and External Unfolding

Authors: Ery Arias-Castro, Clément Berenfeld, Daniel Kane

Comments: same exact version with funding information added

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[4]  arXiv:2310.00250 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The oracle property of the generalized outcome adaptive lasso

Authors: Ismaïla Baldé

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[5]  arXiv:2310.00445 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Note on Minimax Robustness of Designs Against Correlated or Heteroscedastic Responses

Authors: Douglas P. Wiens

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[6]  arXiv:2310.00532 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical Limits of Adaptive Linear Models: Low-Dimensional Estimation and Inference

Authors: Licong Lin, Mufang Ying, Suvrojit Ghosh, Koulik Khamaru, Cun-Hui Zhang

Comments: This paper is accepted at NeurIPS 2023

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[7]  arXiv:2310.00554 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting rare and weak deviations of non-proportional hazard in survival analysis

Authors: Ben Galili, Alon Kipnis, Zohar Yakhini

Comments: Part of this work was presented at JSM 2023

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[8]  arXiv:2310.00667 [pdf, other]

Title: Hidden Clique Inference in Random Ising Model I: the planted random field Curie-Weiss model

Authors: Yihan He, Han Liu, Jianqing Fan

Comments: 87 pages, 0 figure

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[9]  arXiv:2310.00693 [pdf, other]

Title: Worst-Case Misidentification Control in Sequential Change Diagnosis using the min-CuSum

Authors: Austin Warner, Georgios Fellouris

Comments: 32 pages total, 18 pages main text, 4 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[10]  arXiv:2310.00881 [pdf, other]

Title: Scalable Statistical Inference in Non-parametric Least Squares

Authors: Meimei Liu, Zuofeng Shang, Yun Yang

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[11]  arXiv:2310.01072 [pdf, other]

Title: Improvements in the estimation of the Weibull tail coefficient -- a comparative study

Authors: Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues, Frederico Caeiro, M. Ivette Gomes

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[12]  arXiv:2310.01133 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optimal rates for ranking a permuted isotonic matrix in polynomial time

Authors: Emmanuel Pilliat (IMAG), Alexandra Carpentier, Nicolas Verzelen (MISTEA)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[13]  arXiv:2310.01153 [pdf, other]

Title: Post-hoc and Anytime Valid Permutation and Group Invariance Testing

Authors: Nick W. Koning

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[14]  arXiv:2310.01173 [pdf, other]

Title: Gradient COBRA: A kernel-based consensual aggregation for regression

Authors: Sothea Has (LPSM)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[15]  arXiv:2310.01374 [pdf, other]

Title: Corrected generalized cross-validation for finite ensembles of penalized estimators

Authors: Pierre C. Bellec, Jin-Hong Du, Takuya Koriyama, Pratik Patil, Kai Tan

Comments: 91 pages, 34 figures; this version adds general proof outlines (in Sections 4.3 and 5.3), add more experiments with non-Gaussian data (in Sections D and E), relaxes an assumption (in Section A.7), clarifies explanations at several places, and corrects minor typos at several places

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[16]  arXiv:2310.01547 [pdf, other]

Title: On the near-optimality of betting confidence sets for bounded means

Authors: Shubhanshu Shekhar, Aaditya Ramdas

Comments: 53 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Applications (stat.AP); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[17]  arXiv:2310.01918 [pdf, other]

Title: Building a theoretical foundation for RUV-III

Authors: Jiming Jiang, Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Terence P. Speed

Comments: 26 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to Annals of Statistics

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[18]  arXiv:2310.01970 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal averaging for functional linear quantile regression models

Authors: Wenchao Xu, Xinyu Zhang, Jeng-Min Chiou

Comments: Any comments are welcome

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[19]  arXiv:2310.02004 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Nearly minimax empirical Bayesian prediction of independent Poisson observables

Authors: Xiao Li

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.14618

Journal-ref: Statistics & Probability Letters Volume 208, May 2024, 110075

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[20]  arXiv:2310.02160 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The SIML method without microstructure noise

Authors: Jirô Akahori, Ryuya Namba, Atsuhito Watanabe

Comments: 20 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Probability (math.PR)

[21]  arXiv:2310.02177 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous inference for monotone and smoothly time-varying functions under complex temporal dynamics

Authors: Tianpai Luo, Weichi Wu

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[22]  arXiv:2310.02461 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimization-based frequentist confidence intervals for functionals in constrained inverse problems: Resolving the Burrus conjecture

Authors: Pau Batlle, Pratik Patil, Michael Stanley, Houman Owhadi, Mikael Kuusela

Comments: 54 pages, V3: minor changes in related work and discussion

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[23]  arXiv:2310.02603 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting a late changepoint in the preferential attachment model

Authors: Gianmarco Bet, Kay Bogerd, Rui M. Castro, Remco van der Hofstad

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Probability (math.PR)

[24]  arXiv:2310.02607 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Convergence Analysis of Kernel Conjugate Gradient for Functional Linear Regression

Authors: Naveen Gupta, S. Sivananthan, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[25]  arXiv:2310.02883 [pdf, other]

Title: Semiparametric Bernstein-von Mises Theorem for a Parameter in the Heat Equation

Authors: Adel Magra, Harry van Zanten

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)