Statistics

Authors and titles for July 2007

[1] arXiv:0707.0082 [pdf, other]

Title: Minimax Robust Function Reconstruction in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Richard J. Barton

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[2] arXiv:0707.0143 [pdf, other]

Title: On semiparametric regression with O'Sullivan penalised splines

M.P. Wand, J.T. Ormerod

Comments: 19 pages with 9 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[3] arXiv:0707.0167 [pdf, other]

Title: The random Tukey depth

J.A. Cuesta-Albertos, A. Nieto-Reyes

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[4] arXiv:0707.0246 [pdf, other]

Title: A new graphical tool of outliers detection in regression models based on recursive estimation

Christian Paroissin (LMA - PAU)

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[5] arXiv:0707.0284 [pdf, other]

Title: A statistical theory for the measurement and estimation of Rayleigh fading channel

Xinjia Chen, Guoxiang Gu, Kemin Zhou

Comments: 25 pages, 10 figures

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

[6] arXiv:0707.0303 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning from dependent observations

Ingo Steinwart, Don Hush, Clint Scovel

Comments: submitted to Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Methodology (stat.ME)

[7] arXiv:0707.0322 [pdf, other]

Title: Consistency of support vector machines for forecasting the evolution of an unknown ergodic dynamical system from observations with unknown noise

Ingo Steinwart, Marian Anghel

Comments: Published in at this http URL the Annals of Statistics (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Annals of Statistics 2009, Vol. 37, No. 2, 841-875

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

[8] arXiv:0707.0462 [pdf, other]

Title: M-estimation of Boolean models for particle flow experiments

Jason A. Osborne, Tony E. Grift

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[9] arXiv:0707.0481 [pdf, other]

Title: Treelets--An adaptive multi-scale basis for sparse unordered data

Ann B. Lee, Boaz Nadler, Larry Wasserman

Comments: This paper commented in: [arXiv:0807.4011], [arXiv:0807.4016], [arXiv:0807.4018], [arXiv:0807.4019], [arXiv:0807.4023], [arXiv:0807.4024]. Rejoinder in [arXiv:0807.4028]. Published in at this http URL the Annals of Applied Statistics (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Annals of Applied Statistics 2008, Vol. 2, No. 2, 435-471

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[10] arXiv:0707.0536 [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive FDR control under independence and dependence

Gilles Blanchard (<a href="http://FIRST.IDA" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>), Etienne Roquain (LPMA)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[11] arXiv:0707.0574 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting spatial patterns with the cumulant function. Part I: The theory

Alberto Bernacchia, Philippe Naveau

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[12] arXiv:0707.0600 [pdf, other]

Title: Does heterosexual transmission drive the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa (or elsewhere)?

Marc Artzrouni (LMA - PAU), Vivient Kamla (LMA - PAU)

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[13] arXiv:0707.0660 [pdf, other]

Title: Strong confidence intervals for autoregression

Vladimir Vovk

Comments: 7 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures

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

[14] arXiv:0707.0805 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Generalization of Chebyshev Inequality for Random Vectors

Xinjia Chen

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure; added some references

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Probability (math.PR); Applications (stat.AP)

[15] arXiv:0707.0823 [pdf, other]

Title: A Statistical Theory for the Analysis of Uncertain Systems

Xinjia Chen, Kemin Zhou, Jorge L. Aravena

Comments: 32 pages, 15 figures

Journal-ref: Proceeding of Joint Meeting of Statistics, pp. 1656--1663, Salt Lake City, 2007

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[16] arXiv:0707.0828 [pdf, other]

Title: Probabilistic Robustness Analysis -- Risks, Complexity and Algorithms

Xinjia Chen, Kemin Zhou, Jorge L. Aravena

Comments: 28 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 47, pp. 2693--2723, 2008

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[17] arXiv:0707.0837 [pdf, other]

Title: Explicit Formula for Constructing Binomial Confidence Interval with Guaranteed Coverage Probability

Xinjia Chen, Kemin Zhou, Jorge L. Aravena

Comments: 20 pages, 27 figures

Journal-ref: Communications in Statistics -- Theory and Methods, vol. 37, pp. 1173--1180, 2008

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

[18] arXiv:0707.0861 [pdf, other]

Title: Data-driven efficient score tests for deconvolution problems

Mikhail Langovoy

Journal-ref: Inverse Problems 24 (2008) 025028 17pp

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Applications (stat.AP)

[19] arXiv:0707.1384 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotically Optimal Estimator of the Parameter of Semi-Linear Autoregression

Dmytro Ivanenko

Comments: 10 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Applications (stat.AP)

[20] arXiv:0707.1600 [pdf, other]

Title: Parameter Estimation in Manneville-Pomeau Processes

B. P. Olbermann, Silvia R. C. Lopes, Artur O. Lopes

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[21] arXiv:0707.2113 [pdf, other]

Title: Exact Computation of Minimum Sample Size for Estimation of Binomial Parameters

Xinjia Chen

Comments: 18 pages, no figures, removed typos

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

[22] arXiv:0707.2115 [pdf, other]

Title: Exact Computation of Minimum Sample Size for Estimating Proportion of Finite Population

Xinjia Chen

Comments: 13 pages, no figure, fixed typos

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

[23] arXiv:0707.2116 [pdf, other]

Title: Exact Computation of Minimum Sample size for Estimation of Poisson Parameters

Xinjia Chen

Comments: 10 pages, no figure, revised the last paragraph of page 3

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

[24] arXiv:0707.2158 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable Selection and Model Averaging in Semiparametric Overdispersed Generalized Linear Models

Remy Cottet, Robert Kohn, David Nott

Comments: 8 graphs 35 pages

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[25] arXiv:0707.2257 [pdf, other]

Title: A Bayes method for a Bathtub Failure Rate via two $\mathbf{S}$-paths

Man-Wai Ho

Comments: 30 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[26] arXiv:0707.2814 [pdf, other]

Title: Coverage Probability of Random Intervals

Xinjia Chen

Comments: 21 pages, 2 figure, revised Theorem 7

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

[27] arXiv:0707.2884 [pdf, other]

Title: On multidimensional item response theory -- a coordinate free approach

Tamás Antal

Comments: Published at this http URL in the Electronic Journal of Statistics (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Electronic Journal of Statistics 2007, Vol. 1, 290-306

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[28] arXiv:0707.3013 [pdf, other]

Title: Application of probabilistic PCR5 Fusion Rule for Multisensor Target Tracking

Alois Kirchner, Frederic Dambreville (DGA/CTA/DT/GIP), Francis Celeste (DGA/CTA/DT/GIP), Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[29] arXiv:0707.3536 [pdf, other]

Title: Degenerating families of dendrograms

Patrick Erik Bradley

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: J. Classif. 25, 27-42 (2008)

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[30] arXiv:0707.3715 [pdf, other]

Title: Exponential inequalities for self-normalized martingales with applications

Bernard Bercu, Abderrahmen Touati

Comments: Published in at this http URL the Annals of Applied Probability (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Annals of Applied Probability 2008, Vol. 18, No. 5, 1848-1869

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

[31] arXiv:0707.3794 [pdf, other]

Title: Binary Models for Marginal Independence

Mathias Drton, Thomas S. Richardson

Journal-ref: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 2008, Vol. 70, No. 2, 287-309

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[32] arXiv:0707.3873 [pdf, other]

Title: Alternative parametrizations and reference priors for decomposable discrete graphical models

Guido Consonni, Hélène Massam

Comments: 31 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[33] arXiv:0707.3877 [pdf, other]

Title: Intrinsic tests for the equality of two correlated proportions

Guido Consonni, Luca La Rocca

Comments: 31 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[34] arXiv:0707.4072 [pdf, other]

Title: Families of dendrograms

Patrick Erik Bradley

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications, Freiburg im Breisgau, 7-9 March 2007. Springer series Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[35] arXiv:0707.4098 [pdf, other]

Title: Rank-based inference for bivariate extreme-value copulas

Christian Genest, Johan Segers

Comments: Published in at this http URL the Annals of Statistics (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Annals of Statistics 2009, Vol. 37, No. 5B, 2990-3022

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[36] arXiv:0707.4242 [pdf, other]

Title: Importance Tempering

Robert B. Gramacy, Richard J. Samworth, Ruth King

Comments: 16 pages, 2 tables, significantly shortened from version 4 in response to referee comments, to appear in Statistics and Computing

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO); Applications (stat.AP)

[37] arXiv:0707.4558 [pdf, other]

Title: Open Problems in Algebraic Statistics

Bernd Sturmfels

Comments: 13 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Algebraic Geometry (math.AG); Computation (stat.CO)

[38] arXiv:0707.4621 [pdf, other]

Title: Semiparametrically efficient rank-based inference for shape I. optimal rank-based tests for sphericity

Marc Hallin, Davy Paindaveine

Comments: Published at this http URL in the Annals of Statistics (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Annals of Statistics 2006, Vol. 34, No. 6, 2707-2756

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[39] arXiv:0707.4643 [pdf, other]

Title: Active Set and EM Algorithms for Log-Concave Densities Based on Complete and Censored Data

Lutz Duembgen, Andre Huesler, Kaspar Rufibach

Comments: Changes in versions 3-4: Updated references, corrections of minor errors, shortened section on EM algorithm (which will be treated in more detail in a separate paper)

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Computation (stat.CO)

[40] arXiv:0707.0257 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: LAMN property for hidden processes: the case of integrated diffusions

Arnaud Gloter (LAMA), Emmanuel Gobet (LJK)

Journal-ref: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics 44, 1 (2008) 104-128

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

[41] arXiv:0707.0271 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Hidden Markov Models in continuous time

Pavel Chigansky

Comments: Warning: due to a flaw in the publishing process, some of the references in the published version of the article are confused

Journal-ref: Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Volume 12, Number 2 / June, 2009, pp. 139-163

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

[42] arXiv:0707.0340 (cross-list from math.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic enumeration of sparse nonnegative integer matrices with specified row and column sums

Catherine Greenhill, Brendan D. McKay

Comments: We fixes a small gap in the proof of Lemma 5.1 and made some other minor corrections. No theorem statements have changed

Journal-ref: Advances in Applied Mathematics, 41 (2008) 459-481

Subjects: Combinatorics (math.CO); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[43] arXiv:0707.0878 (cross-list from math.OC) [pdf, other]

Title: Risk Analysis in Robust Control -- Making the Case for Probabilistic Robust Control

Xinjia Chen, Jorge Aravena, Kemin Zhou

Comments: 22 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Proceedings of American Control Conference, pp. 1533-1538, Portland, June 2005.

Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[44] arXiv:0707.1231 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A Robertson-type Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Fisher Information

Paolo Gibilisco, Daniele Imparato, Tommaso Isola

Comments: 17 pages (approx.)

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[45] arXiv:0707.2908 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: Some particular self-interacting diffusions: Ergodic behaviour and almost sure convergence

Sébastien Chambeu, Aline Kurtzmann

Comments: Published in at this http URL the Bernoulli (this http URL) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Bernoulli 2011, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1248-1267

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

[46] arXiv:0707.3482 (cross-list from q-fin.ST) [pdf, other]

Title: A Bayesian Framework for Combining Valuation Estimates

Kenton K. Yee

Comments: Citations at this http URL Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 30.3 (2008) forthcoming

Subjects: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Applications (stat.AP)

[47] arXiv:0707.3545 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: Exchangeable Random Networks

F. Bassetti, M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, S. Mandrá

Comments: to appear on "Internet Mathematics"

Journal-ref: Internet Mathematics, 4 (4), 2007

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

[48] arXiv:0707.3989 (cross-list from math.PR) [pdf, other]

Title: Regularly varying multivariate time series

Bojan Basrak, Johan Segers

Comments: 25 pages

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