Statistics

Authors and titles for December 2020

[251] arXiv:2012.07937 [pdf, other]

Title: Template Matching with Ranks

Ery Arias-Castro, Lin Zheng

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[252] arXiv:2012.07941 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable Selection with Second-Generation P-Values

Yi Zuo, Thomas G. Stewart, Jeffrey D. Blume

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[253] arXiv:2012.07969 [pdf, other]

Title: A case for new neural network smoothness constraints

Mihaela Rosca, Theophane Weber, Arthur Gretton, Shakir Mohamed

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[254] arXiv:2012.07977 [pdf, other]

Title: Probabilistic Contrastive Principal Component Analysis

Didong Li, Andrew Jones, Barbara Engelhardt

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[255] arXiv:2012.08015 [pdf, other]

Title: Active Learning for Deep Gaussian Process Surrogates

Annie Sauer, Robert B. Gramacy, David Higdon

Comments: 33 pages, 13 figures

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

[256] arXiv:2012.08028 [pdf, other]

Title: COVID-19 Economic Policy Effects on Consumer Spending and Foot Traffic in the U.S

Zhiqing Yang, Youngjun Choe, Matthew Martell

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[257] arXiv:2012.08036 [pdf, other]

Title: Applications of multivariate quasi-random sampling with neural networks

Marius Hofert, Avinash Prasad, Mu Zhu

Comments: 17 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Applications (stat.AP)

[258] arXiv:2012.08065 [pdf, other]

Title: Certifiably Optimal Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction

Lei Yan, Xin Chen

Comments: 22 pages

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[259] arXiv:2012.08073 [pdf, other]

Title: Chernoff Sampling for Active Testing and Extension to Active Regression

Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Ardhendu Tripathy, Robert Nowak

Comments: 47 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[260] arXiv:2012.08089 [pdf, other]

Title: IsoCheck: An R Package to check Isomorphism for Two-level Factorial Designs with Randomization Restrictions

Pratishtha Batra, Neil A. Spencer, Pritam Ranjan

Comments: 21 pages

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

[261] arXiv:2012.08101 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting and Adapting to Irregular Distribution Shifts in Bayesian Online Learning

Aodong Li, Alex Boyd, Padhraic Smyth, Stephan Mandt

Comments: Published version, Neural Information Processing Systems 2021

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[262] arXiv:2012.08154 [pdf, other]

Title: Inference of Causal Effects when Control Variables are Unknown

Ludvig Hult, Dave Zachariah

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

[263] arXiv:2012.08223 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-term prediction intervals with many covariates

Sayar Karmakar, Marek Chudy, Wei Biao Wu

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

[264] arXiv:2012.08244 [pdf, other]

Title: Manifold-based time series forecasting

Nikita Puchkin, Aleksandr Timofeev, Vladimir Spokoiny

Comments: 41 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[265] arXiv:2012.08246 [pdf, other]

Title: The Role of Governmental Weapons Procurements in Forecasting Monthly Fatalities in Intrastate Conflicts: A Semiparametric Hierarchical Hurdle Model

Cornelius Fritz, Marius Mehrl, Paul W. Thurner, Göran Kauermann

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[266] arXiv:2012.08257 [pdf, other]

Title: Ordering results of extreme order statistics from multiple-outlier scale models with dependence

Sangita Das, Suchandan Kayal

Comments: 25 pages, 6 figures

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

[267] arXiv:2012.08294 [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum $\log_q$ Likelihood Estimation for Parameters of Weibull Distribution and Properties: Monte Carlo Simulation

Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya, Roberto Vila

Comments: 36 pages, 12 Figures

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

[268] arXiv:2012.08338 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic Behavior of Free Energy When Optimal Probability Distribution Is Not Unique

Shuya Nagayasu, Sumio Watanabe

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[269] arXiv:2012.08371 [pdf, other]

Title: Limiting laws and consistent estimation criteria for fixed and diverging number of spiked eigenvalues

Jianwei Hu, Jingfei Zhang, Jianhua Guo, Ji Zhu

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

[270] arXiv:2012.08391 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal ROC Curves from Score Variable Threshold Tests

Catherine Medlock, Alan Oppenheim

Journal-ref: In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 5327-5330). IEEE

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Signal Processing (eess.SP); Methodology (stat.ME)

[271] arXiv:2012.08397 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian Chain Graph LASSO Models to Learn Sparse Microbial Networks with Predictors

Yunyi Shen, Claudia Solis-Lemus

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

[272] arXiv:2012.08444 [pdf, other]

Title: Minimax Risk and Uniform Convergence Rates for Nonparametric Dyadic Regression

Bryan S. Graham, Fengshi Niu, James L. Powell

Comments: 28 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Econometrics (econ.EM)

[273] arXiv:2012.08453 [pdf, other]

Title: A Supervised Hybrid Statistical Catch-up System Built on Gabece Gambian Data

Tagbo Innocent Aroh, Ousman Saine, Soumaila Dembélé, Gane Samb Lo

Comments: 34 pages

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[274] arXiv:2012.08488 [pdf, other]

Title: Overview description of the Gambian GABECE Educational Data and associated algorithms and unsupervized learning process

Ousmane Saine, Soumaila Dembélé, Gane Samb Lo, Mohamed Cheikh Haidara

Comments: 23 pages; 5 figures

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[275] arXiv:2012.08496 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Methods for Data Science: A Statistical Perspective

Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma

Journal-ref: Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: Vol. 14: No. 5, pp. 566-806, 2021

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[276] arXiv:2012.08647 [pdf, other]

Title: Computation-free Nonparametric testing for Local and Global Spatial Autocorrelation with application to the Canadian Electorate

Adam B Kashlak, Weicong Yuan

Comments: 22 pages, 7 figures

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

[277] arXiv:2012.08648 [pdf, other]

Title: Online Learning Demands in Max-min Fairness

Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Gur-Eyal Sela, Joseph E Gonzalez, Michael I Jordan, Ion Stoica

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[278] arXiv:2012.08649 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of right censoring bias on survival analysis

Enrique Barrajón, Laura Barrajón

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, supplement

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

[279] arXiv:2012.08652 [pdf, other]

Title: Selection of multiple donor gauges via Graphical Lasso for estimation of daily streamflow time series

German A. Villalba, Xu Liang, Yao Liang

Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.01373

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[280] arXiv:2012.08724 [pdf, other]

Title: Trustworthy Online Marketplace Experimentation with Budget-split Design

Min Liu, Jialiang Mao, Kang Kang

Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[281] arXiv:2012.08784 [pdf, other]

Title: Tensor Completion by Multi-Rank via Unitary Transformation

Guang-Jing Song, Michael K. Ng, Xiongjun Zhang

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[282] arXiv:2012.08810 [pdf, other]

Title: Event History and Topological Data Analysis

Kathryn Garside, Aida Gjoka, Robin Henderson, Hollie Johnson, Irina Makarenko

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[283] arXiv:2012.08848 [pdf, other]

Title: Ensemble Kalman filter based Sequential Monte Carlo Sampler for sequential Bayesian inference

Jiangqi Wu, Linjie Wen, Peter L Green, Jinglai Li, Simon Maskell

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

[284] arXiv:2012.08903 [pdf, other]

Title: A connection between the pattern classification problem and the General Linear Model for statistical inference

Juan Manuel Gorriz, SIPBA group, John Suckling

Comments: 20 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[285] arXiv:2012.08910 [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive Generalized Logit-Normal Distributions for Wind Power Short-Term Forecasting

Amandine Pierrot, Pierre Pinson

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to the 14th IEEE PowerTech 2021 Conference

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[286] arXiv:2012.08966 [pdf, other]

Title: Limit distribution of the least square estimator with observations sampled at random times driven by standard Brownian motion

Tania Roa, Soledad Torres, Ciprian tudor

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[287] arXiv:2012.09096 [pdf, other]

Title: A tractable non-adaptative group testing method for non-binary measurements

Emilien Joly, Bastien Mallein

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, submitted

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

[288] arXiv:2012.09226 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal transport for vector Gaussian mixture models

Jiening Zhu, Kaiming Xu, Allen Tannenbaum

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Probability (math.PR)

[289] arXiv:2012.09246 [pdf, other]

Title: No-harm calibration for generalized Oaxaca-Blinder estimators

Peter L. Cohen, Colin B. Fogarty

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[290] arXiv:2012.09258 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of data drift and outliers affecting machine learning model performance over time

Samuel Ackerman, Eitan Farchi, Orna Raz, Marcel Zalmanovici, Parijat Dube

Comments: In: JSM Proceedings, Nonparametric Statistics Section, 20202. Philadelphia, PA: American Statistical Association. 144--160

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[291] arXiv:2012.09385 [pdf, other]

Title: Balancing Geometry and Density: Path Distances on High-Dimensional Data

Anna Little, Daniel McKenzie, James Murphy

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[292] arXiv:2012.09390 [pdf, other]

Title: Classifying Sequences of Extreme Length with Constant Memory Applied to Malware Detection

Edward Raff, William Fleshman, Richard Zak, Hyrum S. Anderson, Bobby Filar, Mark McLean

Comments: To appear in AAAI 2021

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[293] arXiv:2012.09395 [pdf, other]

Title: l1-norm quantile regression screening rule via the dual circumscribed sphere

Pan Shang, Lingchen Kong

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[294] arXiv:2012.09436 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic normality of wavelet covariances and of multivariate wavelet Whittle estimators

Irène Gannaz (PSPM, ICJ)

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[295] arXiv:2012.09561 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Estimating Mixed-Memberships Using the Symmetric Laplacian Inverse Matrix

Huan Qing, Jingli Wang

Journal-ref: Journal of the Korean Statistical Society. 2023 Mar;52(1):248-64

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[296] arXiv:2012.09598 [pdf, other]

Title: Network Hawkes Process Models for Exploring Latent Hierarchy in Social Animal Interactions

Owen G. Ward, Jing Wu, Tian Zheng, Anna L. Smith, James P. Curley

Comments: To appear in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C

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

[297] arXiv:2012.09623 [pdf, other]

Title: A geometric investigation into the tail dependence of vine copulas

Emma S. Simpson, Jennifer L. Wadsworth, Jonathan A. Tawn

Journal-ref: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 2021, Volume 184, 104736

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

[298] arXiv:2012.09659 [pdf, other]

Title: A convolution type model for the intensity of spatial point processes applied to eye-movement data

Francisco Cuevas-Pacheco, Jean-François Coeurjolly, Marie-Hélène Descary

Comments: Submitted for journal publication

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[299] arXiv:2012.09731 [pdf, other]

Title: A fresh take on 'Barker dynamics' for MCMC

Max Hird, Samuel Livingstone, Giacomo Zanella

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures

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

[300] arXiv:2012.09746 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-parametric estimation of Expectation and Variance of event count and of incidence rate in a recurrent process -- where intensity of event-occurrence changes with the occurrence of each higher order event

Sudipta Bhattacharya

Comments: 21 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)