Statistics

Authors and titles for August 2007

[1] arXiv:0708.0061 [pdf, other]

Title: Cross Validation for Comparing Multiple Density Estimation Procedures

Heng Lian

Journal-ref: Statistics & Probability Letters 79(1):112-115:2009

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[2] arXiv:0708.0079 [pdf, other]

Title: Semiparametrically efficient rank-based inference for shape II. Optimal R-estimation of shape

Marc Hallin, Hannu Oja, 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, 2757-2789

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[3] arXiv:0708.0083 [pdf, other]

Title: 2004 IMS Medallion Lecture: Local Rademacher complexities and oracle inequalities in risk minimization

Vladimir Koltchinskii

Comments: This paper discussed in: [arXiv:0708.0089], [arXiv:0708.0094], [arXiv:0708.0098], [arXiv:0708.0121], [arXiv:0708.0124], [arXiv:0708.0132]. Rejoinder in [arXiv:0708.0135]. 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, 2593-2656

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[4] arXiv:0708.0094 [pdf, other]

Title: Discussion of ``2004 IMS Medallion Lecture: Local Rademacher complexities and oracle inequalities in risk minimization'' by V. Koltchinskii

Gilles Blanchard, Pascal Massart

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, 2664-2671

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[5] arXiv:0708.0135 [pdf, other]

Title: Rejoinder: 2004 IMS Medallion Lecture: Local Rademacher complexities and oracle inequalities in risk minimization

Vladimir Koltchinskii

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, 2697-2706

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[6] arXiv:0708.0143 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonparametric quasi-maximum likelihood estimation for Gaussian locally stationary processes

Rainer Dahlhaus, Wolfgang Polonik

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, 2790-2824

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[7] arXiv:0708.0165 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust estimates in generalized partially linear models

Graciela Boente, Xuming He, Jianhui Zhou

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, 2856-2878

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[8] arXiv:0708.0167 [pdf, other]

Title: On the limiting distributions of multivariate depth-based rank sum statistics and related tests

Yijun Zuo, Xuming He

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, 2879-2896

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[9] arXiv:0708.0169 [pdf, other]

Title: Data-driven goodness-of-fit tests

Mikhail Langovoy

Comments: Fully remastered version of the paper

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

[10] arXiv:0708.0175 [pdf, other]

Title: Convergence rates for Bayesian density estimation of infinite-dimensional exponential families

Catia Scricciolo

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, 2897-2920

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[11] arXiv:0708.0177 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotically minimax Bayes predictive densities

Mihaela Aslan

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, 2921-2938

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[12] arXiv:0708.0185 [pdf, other]

Title: Semiparametric estimation of fractional cointegrating subspaces

Willa W. Chen, Clifford M. Hurvich

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, 2939-2979

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[13] arXiv:0708.0197 [pdf, other]

Title: A frequency domain empirical likelihood for short- and long-range dependence

Daniel J. Nordman, Soumendra N. Lahiri

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, 3019-3050

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[14] arXiv:0708.0224 [pdf, other]

Title: Multisource Bayesian sequential change detection

Savas Dayanik, H. Vincent Poor, Semih O. Sezer

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. 2, 552-590

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

[15] arXiv:0708.0279 [pdf, other]

Title: Expert Elicitation for Reliable System Design

Tim Bedford, John Quigley, Lesley Walls

Comments: This paper commented in: [arXiv:0708.0285], [arXiv:0708.0287], [arXiv:0708.0288]. Rejoinder in [arXiv:0708.0293]. Published at this http URL in the Statistical Science (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 428-450

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[16] arXiv:0708.0285 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment: Expert Elicitation for Reliable System Design

Norman Fenton, Martin Neil

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 451-453

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[17] arXiv:0708.0287 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment: Expert Elicitation for Reliable System Design

Andrew Koehler

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 454-455

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[18] arXiv:0708.0288 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment: Expert Elicitation for Reliable System Design

Wenbin Wang

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 456-459

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[19] arXiv:0708.0293 [pdf, other]

Title: Rejoinder: Expert Elicitation for Reliable System Design

Tim Bedford, John Quigley, Lesley Walls

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 460-462

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[20] arXiv:0708.0295 [pdf, other]

Title: Reliability

Sallie Keller-McNulty, Alyson Wilson, Christine Anderson-Cook

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 427-427

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[21] arXiv:0708.0302 [pdf, other]

Title: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile Estimation

John M. Chambers, David A. James, Diane Lambert, Scott Vander Wiel

Comments: This paper commented in: [arXiv:0708.0317], [arXiv:0708.0336], [arXiv:0708.0338]. Rejoinder in [arXiv:0708.0339]. Published at this http URL in the Statistical Science (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 463-475

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[22] arXiv:0708.0317 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile Estimation

Lorraine Denby, James M. Landwehr, Jean Meloche

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 476-478

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[23] arXiv:0708.0336 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile Estimation

Earl Lawrence, George Michailidis, Vijayan N. Nair

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 479-482

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[24] arXiv:0708.0338 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile Estimation

Bin Yu

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 483-484

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[25] arXiv:0708.0339 [pdf, other]

Title: Rejoinder: Monitoring Networked Applications With Incremental Quantile Estimation

John M. Chambers, David A. James, Diane Lambert, Scott Vander Wiel

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 485-486

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[26] arXiv:0708.0343 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic Modeling and Statistical Analysis of Event Times

Edsel A. Peña

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 487-500

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[27] arXiv:0708.0346 [pdf, other]

Title: Threshold Regression for Survival Analysis: Modeling Event Times by a Stochastic Process Reaching a Boundary

Mei-Ling Ting Lee, G. A. Whitmore

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 501-513

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[28] arXiv:0708.0355 [pdf, other]

Title: Advances in Data Combination, Analysis and Collection for System Reliability Assessment

Alyson G. Wilson, Todd L. Graves, Michael S. Hamada, C. Shane Reese

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 514-531

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[29] arXiv:0708.0362 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Repairable Systems

Bo Henry Lindqvist

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 532-551

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[30] arXiv:0708.0369 [pdf, other]

Title: A Review of Accelerated Test Models

Luis A. Escobar, William Q. Meeker

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 552-577

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[31] arXiv:0708.0378 [pdf, other]

Title: A Conversation With Harry Martz

Paul Kvam

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4, 578-585

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[32] arXiv:0708.0385 [pdf, other]

Title: Tree-structured regression and the differentiation of integrals

Richard A. Olshen

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1-12

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[33] arXiv:0708.0390 [pdf, other]

Title: On the maximum bias functions of MM-estimates and constrained M-estimates of regression

José R. Berrendero, Beatriz V. M. Mendes, David E. Tyler

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 13-40

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[34] arXiv:0708.0462 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotics for sliced average variance estimation

Yingxing Li, Li-Xing Zhu

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 41-69

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[35] arXiv:0708.0466 [pdf, other]

Title: Methodology and convergence rates for functional linear regression

Peter Hall, Joel L. Horowitz

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 70-91

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[36] arXiv:0708.0471 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantile regression with varying coefficients

Mi-Ok Kim

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 92-108

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[37] arXiv:0708.0474 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic data analysis on manifolds

Harrie Hendriks, Zinoviy Landsman

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 109-131

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[38] arXiv:0708.0481 [pdf, other]

Title: Outlier robust corner-preserving methods for reconstructing noisy images

Martin Hillebrand, Christine H. Müller

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 132-165

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[39] arXiv:0708.0485 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic local efficiency of Cram\'{e}r--von Mises tests for multivariate independence

Christian Genest, Jean-François Quessy, Bruno Rémillard

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 166-191

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[40] arXiv:0708.0491 [pdf, other]

Title: Convergence rates of posterior distributions for noniid observations

Subhashis Ghosal, Aad van der Vaart

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 192-223

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[41] arXiv:0708.0499 [pdf, other]

Title: Inference for mixtures of symmetric distributions

David R. Hunter, Shaoli Wang, Thomas P. Hettmansperger

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 224-251

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[42] arXiv:0708.0503 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonparametric estimation in a nonlinear cointegration type model

Hans Arnfinn Karlsen, Terje Myklebust, Dag Tjøstheim

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 252-299

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[43] arXiv:0708.0506 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonparametric estimation when data on derivatives are available

Peter Hall, Adonis Yatchew

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 300-323

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[44] arXiv:0708.0519 [pdf, other]

Title: Hazard models with varying coefficients for multivariate failure time data

Jianwen Cai, Jianqing Fan, Haibo Zhou, Yong Zhou

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 324-354

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[45] arXiv:0708.0536 [pdf, other]

Title: Stable marked point processes

Tucker McElroy, Dimitris N. Politis

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 393-419

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[46] arXiv:0708.0656 [pdf, other]

Title: A multivariate central limit theorem for randomized orthogonal array sampling designs in computer experiments

Wei-Liem Loh

Comments: 89 pages

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

[47] arXiv:0708.0711 [pdf, other]

Title: Convergence of adaptive mixtures of importance sampling schemes

R. Douc, A. Guillin, J.-M. Marin, C. P. Robert

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 (2007), Vol. 35, No. 1, 420-448

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

[48] arXiv:0708.0715 [pdf, other]

Title: Step-up simultaneous tests for identifying active effects in orthogonal saturated designs

Samuel S. Wu, Weizhen Wang

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1, 449-463

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[49] arXiv:0708.0945 [pdf, other]

Title: An iterative tomogravity algorithm for the estimation of network traffic

Jiangang Fang, Yehuda Vardi, Cun-Hui Zhang

Comments: Published at this http URL in the IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series 2007, Vol. 54, 12-23

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[50] arXiv:0708.0959 [pdf, other]

Title: A flexible Bayesian generalized linear model for dichotomous response data with an application to text categorization

Susana Eyheramendy, David Madigan

Comments: Published at this http URL in the IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series (this http URL) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (this http URL)

Journal-ref: IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series 2007, Vol. 54, 76-91

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)