Statistics

Authors and titles for December 2007

[1] arXiv:0712.0096 [pdf, other]

Title: Auxiliary Information and A Priori Values in Construction of Improved Estimators

Rajesh Singh, Pankaj Chauhan, Nirmala Sawan, Florentin Smarandache

Comments: 74 pages

Journal-ref: Third paper published in Bulletin of Statistics & Economics, Vol. 3, No. A09, pp. 13-18, Fall 2009.

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[2] arXiv:0712.0179 [pdf, other]

Title: Rates of convergence for minimal distances in the central limit theorem under projective criteria

Jérôme Dedecker (LSTA), Florence Merlevède (PMA), Emmanuel Rio (LM-Versailles)

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

[3] arXiv:0712.0189 [pdf, other]

Title: Summarization and Classification of Non-Poisson Point Processes

Jeffrey Picka, Mingxia Deng

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures

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

[4] arXiv:0712.0248 [pdf, other]

Title: Pac-Bayesian Supervised Classification: The Thermodynamics of Statistical Learning

Olivier Catoni

Comments: Published in at this http URL 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. 56, i-xii, 1-163

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[5] arXiv:0712.0283 [pdf, other]

Title: Wavelet methods in statistics: Some recent developments and their applications

Anestis Antoniadis

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

Journal-ref: Statistics Surveys 2007, Vol. 1, 16-55

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[6] arXiv:0712.0285 [pdf, other]

Title: Forgetting of the initial condition for the filter in general state-space hidden Markov chain: a coupling approach

Randal Douc (SAMOVAR), Eric Moulines (LTCI), Ya'Acov Ritov

Comments: 21

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[7] arXiv:0712.0660 [pdf, other]

Title: A practical illustration of the importance of realistic individualized treatment rules in causal inference

Oliver Bembom, Mark J. van der Laan

Comments: Published in at this http URL 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, 574-596

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[8] arXiv:0712.0679 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic normality of the Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimator for multidimensional causal processes

Jean-Marc Bardet (CES, Matisse, Samos), Olivier Wintenberger (CES, Matisse, Samos)

Journal-ref: The Annals of Statistics (2009) 1-32

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[9] arXiv:0712.0721 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotically optimal multistage tests of simple hypotheses

Jay Bartroff

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2075-2105

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[10] arXiv:0712.0775 [pdf, other]

Title: Some nonasymptotic results on resampling in high dimension, I: Confidence regions, II: Multiple tests

Sylvain Arlot, Gilles Blanchard, Etienne Roquain

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

Journal-ref: The Annals of Statistics 38, 1 (2010) 51-99

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[11] arXiv:0712.0814 [pdf, other]

Title: Log-average periodogram estimator of the memory parameter

Valderio Reisen (UFES), Eric Moulines (LTCI), Philippe Soulier (MODAL'X), Glaura Franco

Comments: 20 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[12] arXiv:0712.0881 [pdf, other]

Title: On the "degrees of freedom" of the lasso

Hui Zou, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2173-2192

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[13] arXiv:0712.0892 [pdf, other]

Title: On surrogate dimension reduction for measurement error regression: An invariance law

Bing Li, Xiangrong Yin

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2143-2172

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[14] arXiv:0712.0894 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal third root asymptotic bounds in the statistical estimation of thresholds

Franz Merkl, Leila Mohammadi

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2193-2218

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[15] arXiv:0712.0898 [pdf, other]

Title: Variance estimation in nonparametric regression via the difference sequence method

Lawrence D. Brown, M. Levine

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2219-2232

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[16] arXiv:0712.0901 [pdf, other]

Title: Iterative estimating equations: Linear convergence and asymptotic properties

Jiming Jiang, Yihui Luan, You-Gan Wang

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2233-2260

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[17] arXiv:0712.0904 [pdf, other]

Title: On optimality of Bayesian testimation in the normal means problem

Felix Abramovich, Vadim Grinshtein, Marianna Pensky

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2261-2286

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[18] arXiv:0712.0939 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial aggregation of local likelihood estimates with applications to classification

Denis Belomestny, Vladimir Spokoiny

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 2007, Vol. 35, No. 5, 2287-2311

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[19] arXiv:0712.0974 [pdf, other]

Title: Editorial: Statistics and forensic science

Stephen E. Fienberg

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 285-286

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[20] arXiv:0712.1027 [pdf, other]

Title: Kernels and Ensembles: Perspectives on Statistical Learning

Mu Zhu

Comments: 22 pages; 6 figures; sumitted to The American Statistician

Journal-ref: The American Statistician, May 2008, Vol. 62, No. 2, Pages 97 - 109.

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

[21] arXiv:0712.1099 [pdf, other]

Title: The rarity of DNA profiles

Bruce S. Weir

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 358-370

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[22] arXiv:0712.1106 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpretation of interaction: A review

Amy Berrington de González, D. R. Cox

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 371-385

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[23] arXiv:0712.1111 [pdf, other]

Title: The pigeonhole bootstrap

Art B. Owen

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 386-411

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[24] arXiv:0712.1124 [pdf, other]

Title: A statistical analysis of memory CD8 T cell differentiation: An application of a hierarchical state space model to a short time course microarray experiment

Haiyan Wu, Ming Yuan, Susan M. Kaech, M. Elizabeth Halloran

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 442-458

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[25] arXiv:0712.1157 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting changes in the fluctuations of a Gaussian process and an application to heartbeat time series

Jean-Marc Bardet (CES, Matisse, Samos), Imen Kammoun (CES, Matisse, Samos)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[26] arXiv:0712.1342 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic adaptation of importance sampler

Heng Lian

Comments: 11 pages, minor changes

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[27] arXiv:0712.1372 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynkin's Isomorphism with Sign Structure

Kshitij Khare

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[28] arXiv:0712.1425 [pdf, other]

Title: Curve alignment by moments

Gareth M. James

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 480-501

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[29] arXiv:0712.1456 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting abrupt changes of the long-range dependence or the self-similarity of a Gaussian process

Jean-Marc Bardet (SAMOS, Ces), Imen Kammoun (SAMOS, Ces)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[30] arXiv:0712.1458 [pdf, other]

Title: Accounting for spatial correlation in the scan statistic

Ji Meng Loh, Zhengyuan Zhu

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 560-584

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[31] arXiv:0712.1477 [pdf, other]

Title: Crossing paths in 2D Random Walks

Marc Artzrouni (LMA - Pau)

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[32] arXiv:0712.1486 [pdf, other]

Title: Correction: A correlated topic model of Science

David M. Blei, John D. Lafferty

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 634-634

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[33] arXiv:0712.1654 [pdf, other]

Title: Smoothing $\ell_1$-penalized estimators for high-dimensional time-course data

Lukas Meier, Peter Bühlmann

Comments: Published in at this http URL 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, 597-615

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[34] arXiv:0712.1663 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient blind search: Optimal power of detection under computational cost constraints

Nicolai Meinshausen, Peter Bickel, John Rice

Comments: 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 2009, Vol. 3, No. 1, 38-60

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP)

[35] arXiv:0712.1673 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimation in a class of nonlinear heteroscedastic time series models

Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji

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

Journal-ref: Electronic Journal of Statistics 2008, Vol. 2, 40-62

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[36] arXiv:0712.1692 [pdf, other]

Title: Approximating Data with weighted smoothing Splines

P.L. Davies, M. Meise

Journal-ref: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 20:3, (2008) 207-228

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[37] arXiv:0712.1698 [pdf, other]

Title: PAC-Bayesian Bounds for Randomized Empirical Risk Minimizers

Pierre Alquier (PMA, Crest)

Journal-ref: Mathematical Methods of Statistics 17, 4 (2008) 279-304

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

[38] arXiv:0712.1922 [pdf, other]

Title: Prediction of long memory processes on same-realisation

Fanny Godet (LMJL)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[39] arXiv:0712.1936 [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-parametric estimation of shifts

Fabrice Gamboa, Jean-Michel Loubes, Elie Maza

Comments: Published in at this http URL 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, 616-640

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[40] arXiv:0712.1943 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving population-specific allele frequency estimates by adapting supplemental data: an empirical Bayes approach

Marc Coram, Hua Tang

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 459-479

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[41] arXiv:0712.1962 [pdf, other]

Title: The BARISTA: A model for bid arrivals in online auctions

Galit Shmueli, Ralph P. Russo, Wolfgang Jank

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 412-441

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[42] arXiv:0712.2115 [pdf, other]

Title: A statistical framework for the analysis of microarray probe-level data

Zhijin Wu, Rafael A. Irizarry

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 333-357

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[43] arXiv:0712.2124 [pdf, other]

Title: Describing disability through individual-level mixture models for multivariate binary data

Elena A. Erosheva, Stephen E. Fienberg, Cyrille Joutard

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 502-537

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[44] arXiv:0712.2130 [pdf, other]

Title: Diverse correlation structures in gene expression data and their utility in improving statistical inference

Lev Klebanov, Andrei Yakovlev

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 538-559

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[45] arXiv:0712.2150 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical and forensic analysis of JFK assassination bullet lots: Is a second shooter possible?

Cliff Spiegelman, William A. Tobin, William D. James, Simon J. Sheather, Stuart Wexler, D. Max Roundhill

Comments: 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 2007, Vol. 1, No. 2, 287-301

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[46] arXiv:0712.2352 [pdf, other]

Title: Robustly estimating the flow direction of information in complex physical systems

Guido Nolte, Andreas Ziehe, Vadim V. Nikulin, Alois Schlögl, Nicole Krämer, Tom Brismar, Klaus-Robert Müller

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP)

[47] arXiv:0712.2526 [pdf, other]

Title: Variational inference for large-scale models of discrete choice

Michael Braun, Jon McAuliffe

Comments: 29 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of the American Statistical Association (2010) 105(489): 324-334

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

[48] arXiv:0712.2657 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of nonlinear modes of variation for functional data

Rima Izem, J.S. Marron

Comments: Published in at this http URL 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, 641-676

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[49] arXiv:0712.2708 [pdf, other]

Title: The Banff Challenge: Statistical Detection of a Noisy Signal

A. C. Davison, N. Sartori

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

Journal-ref: Statistical Science 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3, 354-364

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Methodology (stat.ME)

[50] arXiv:0712.2912 [pdf, other]

Title: Model selection for quantum homodyne tomography

Jonas Kahn

Comments: 40 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)