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Authors and titles for December 2020

[351] arXiv:2012.10943 [pdf, other]

Title: Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian learning of neural networks with MCMC

Torben Sell, Sumeetpal S. Singh

Comments: 24 pages, 21 figures

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

[352] arXiv:2012.10945 [pdf, other]

Title: SPlit: An Optimal Method for Data Splitting

V. Roshan Joseph, Akhil Vakayil

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

[353] arXiv:2012.10980 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement bias: a structural perspective

Yijie Li, Wei Fan, Miao Zhang, Lili Liu, Jiangbo Bao, Yingjie Zheng

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[354] arXiv:2012.11016 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian Conditional Transformation Models

Manuel Carlan, Thomas Kneib, Nadja Klein

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[355] arXiv:2012.11020 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic distribution of certain degenerate V- and U-statistics with estimated parameters

Marija Cuparić, Bojana Milošević, Marko Obradović

Comments: Revised proof of Theorem 1; other minor changes in text

Journal-ref: Mathematical Communications, 27(1):77-100, 2022

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[356] arXiv:2012.11026 [pdf, other]

Title: Independent Approximates enable closed-form estimation of heavy-tailed distributions

Kenric P. Nelson

Comments: 37 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Information Theory (cs.IT); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[357] arXiv:2012.11094 [pdf, other]

Title: Complexity of zigzag sampling algorithm for strongly log-concave distributions

Jianfeng Lu, Lihan Wang

Comments: We added a new discussion that the warmness assumption of our main theorem can be achieved using LMC

Journal-ref: Stat Comput 32, 48 (2022)

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Computation (stat.CO)

[358] arXiv:2012.11100 [pdf, other]

Title: Two-directional simultaneous inference for high-dimensional models

Wei Liu, Huazhen Lin, Jin Liu, Shurong Zheng

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[359] arXiv:2012.11102 [pdf, other]

Title: Unfolded Algorithms for Deep Phase Retrieval

Naveed Naimipour, Shahin Khobahi, Mojtaba Soltanalian

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

[360] arXiv:2012.11114 [pdf, other]

Title: A Bayesian State-Space Approach to Mapping Directional Brain Networks

Huazhang Li, Yaotian Wang, Guofen Yan, Yinge Sun, Seiji Tanabe, Chang-Chia Liu, Mark Quigg, Tingting Zhang

Comments: 35 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[361] arXiv:2012.11122 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical Modelling and Analysis of the Computer-Simulated Datasets

M. Harshvardhan, Pritam Ranjan

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

[362] arXiv:2012.11124 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Dynamic Gaussian Process Model with Applications to Malaria Vaccine Coverage Prediction

Pritam Ranjan, M. Harshvardhan

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

[363] arXiv:2012.11135 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonstationarity Analysis of Materials Microstructures via Fisher Score Vectors

Kungang Zhang, Daniel W. Apley, Wei Chen

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[364] arXiv:2012.11180 [pdf, other]

Title: Aspects of optimality of plans orthogonal through other factors

Bhaskar Bagchi, Sunanda Bagchi

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[365] arXiv:2012.11198 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial Monte Carlo Integration with Annealed Importance Sampling

Muneki Yasuda, Kaiji Sekimoto

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 103, 052118 (2021)

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[366] arXiv:2012.11241 [pdf, other]

Title: Improvement of the cross-entropy method in high dimension for failure probability estimation through a one-dimensional projection without gradient estimation

Maxime El-Masri, Jérôme Morio, Florian Simatos

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[367] arXiv:2012.11281 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards Conditional Path Analysis

Jose M. Peña

Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2002.05226

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

[368] arXiv:2012.11291 [pdf, other]

Title: How to estimate the association between change in a risk factor and a health outcome?

Michail Katsoulis, Alvina G Lai, Dimitra-Kleio Kipourou, Reecha Sofat, Manuel Gomes, Amitava Banerjee, Spiros Denaxas, Thomas R Lumbers, Kostas Tsilidis, Harry Hemingway, Karla Diaz-Ordaz

Comments: 13 pages, 2 Tables, 3 Figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[369] arXiv:2012.11349 [pdf, other]

Title: A comparison of learning rate selection methods in generalized Bayesian inference

Pei-Shien Wu, Ryan Martin

Comments: 22 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables

Journal-ref: Bayesian Analysis, volume 18, pages 105--132, 2023

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

[370] arXiv:2012.11361 [pdf, other]

Title: Anomaly detection and classification in traffic flow data from fluctuations in the flow-density relationship

Kieran Kalair, Colm Connaughton

Comments: 23 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[371] arXiv:2012.11390 [pdf, other]

Title: Adversarial Training for a Continuous Robustness Control Problem in Power Systems

Loïc Omnes, Antoine Marot, Benjamin Donnot

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, to be published in the PowerTech 2021 conference

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

[372] arXiv:2012.11411 [pdf, other]

Title: An Approach to Gender Pay Equity Analysis Using Bayesian Hierarchical Regression

Diana Cesar

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[373] arXiv:2012.11470 [pdf, other]

Title: A critical review of LASSO and its derivatives for variable selection under dependence among covariates

Laura Freijeiro-González, Manuel Febrero-Bande, Wenceslao González-Manteiga

Comments: 26 pages, 16 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[374] arXiv:2012.11478 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimality of multi-way designs

Sunanda Bagchi, Bhaskar Bagchi

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[375] arXiv:2012.11501 [pdf, other]

Title: Sparse tensor product approximation for a class of generalized method of moments estimators

Alexandros Gilch, Michael Griebel, Jens Oettershagen

Comments: 33 pages, 4 tables, 4 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[376] arXiv:2012.11518 [pdf, other]

Title: Zeroth-Order Hybrid Gradient Descent: Towards A Principled Black-Box Optimization Framework

Pranay Sharma, Kaidi Xu, Sijia Liu, Pin-Yu Chen, Xue Lin, Pramod K. Varshney

Comments: 27 pages, 3 figures

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

[377] arXiv:2012.11542 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainty on the Reproduction Ratio in the SIR Model

Sean Elliott, Christian Gourieroux

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Econometrics (econ.EM); Applications (stat.AP)

[378] arXiv:2012.11572 [pdf, other]

Title: Computing Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Gaussian Graphical Models with Macaulay2

Carlos Améndola, Luis David García Puente, Roser Homs, Olga Kuznetsova, Harshit J. Motwani

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: J. Softw. Alg. Geom. 12 (2022) 1-10

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO); Commutative Algebra (math.AC)

[379] arXiv:2012.11573 [pdf, other]

Title: Change-in-Slope Optimal Partitioning Algorithm in a Finite-Size Parameter Space

Vincent Runge, Marco Pascucci, Nicolas Deschamps de Boishebert

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[380] arXiv:2012.11574 [pdf, other]

Title: TVOR: Finding Discrete Total Variation Outliers among Histograms

Nikola Banić, Neven Elezović

Comments: 28 pages, 25 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)

[381] arXiv:2012.11654 [pdf, other]

Title: Tight Bounds on the Smallest Eigenvalue of the Neural Tangent Kernel for Deep ReLU Networks

Quynh Nguyen, Marco Mondelli, Guido Montufar

Comments: appeared at ICML 2021, this version corrects a mistake in Lemma 5.4 which also affects Lemma 5.5. These two Lemmas have been edited and the corresponding proofs corrected. All the other results remain untouched

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

[382] arXiv:2012.11676 [pdf, other]

Title: Empirical Bayes PCA in high dimensions

Xinyi Zhong, Chang Su, Zhou Fan

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

[383] arXiv:2012.11678 [pdf, other]

Title: Global Trends and Predictors of Face Mask Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Ting-Hsuan Chang, Esther Kim, Sarah LaRocca, Katherine Morris, Xiaoyi Deng, Samantha Chiu, Adrianne Bradford, Andres Garcia, Christoph Kern, Curtiss Cobb, Frauke Kreuter, Elizabeth A. Stuart

Comments: 39 pages, 2 mian figures, Appendix

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[384] arXiv:2012.11735 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust Inference Using the Exponential-Polynomial Divergence

Pushpinder Singh, Abhijit Mandal, Ayanendranath Basu

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[385] arXiv:2012.11757 [pdf, other]

Title: Separating and reintegrating latent variables to improve classification of genomic data

Nora Yujia Payne, Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[386] arXiv:2012.11767 [pdf, other]

Title: A spectral adjustment for spatial confounding

Yawen Guan, Garritt L. Page, Brian J Reich, Massimo Ventrucci, Shu Yang

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[387] arXiv:2012.11798 [pdf, other]

Title: APIK: Active Physics-Informed Kriging Model with Partial Differential Equations

Jialei Chen, Zhehui Chen, Chuck Zhang, C. F. Jeff Wu

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

[388] arXiv:2012.11809 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimation in nonparametric regression model with additive and multiplicative noise via Laguerre series

Rida Benhaddou

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[389] arXiv:2012.11826 [pdf, other]

Title: MLE of Jointly Constrained Mean-Covariance of Multivariate Normal Distributions

Anupam Kundu, Mohsen Pourahmadi

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[390] arXiv:2012.11836 [pdf, other]

Title: D-optimal joint best linear unbiased prediction of order statistics

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Ritwik Bhattacharya

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[391] arXiv:2012.11849 [pdf, other]

Title: Selective Forgetting of Deep Networks at a Finer Level than Samples

Tomohiro Hayase, Suguru Yasutomi, Takashi Katoh

Comments: 8+2 pages, 6 figures, accepted to AAAI RSEML

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

[392] arXiv:2012.11915 [pdf, other]

Title: Having a Ball: evaluating scoring streaks and game excitement using in-match trend estimation

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Andreas Kryger Jensen

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

[393] arXiv:2012.11920 [pdf, other]

Title: Covariance matrix estimation under data-based loss

Anis M. Haddouche, Dominique Fourdrinier, Fatiha Mezoued

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

[394] arXiv:2012.11987 [pdf, other]

Title: Unsupervised Functional Data Analysis via Nonlinear Dimension Reduction

Moritz Herrmann, Fabian Scheipl

Comments: 29 pages, 11 figures

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

[395] arXiv:2012.12083 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonparametric Bayesian inference for reversible multi-dimensional diffusions

Matteo Giordano, Kolyan Ray

Comments: 41 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Annals of Statistics

Journal-ref: Ann. Statist. 50(5) (2022), 2872-2898

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

[396] arXiv:2012.12085 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian structural equation modeling for data from multiple cohorts

Khue-Dung Dang, Louise M. Ryan, Tugba Akkaya-Hocagil, Richard J. Cook, Gale A. Richardson, Nancy L. Day, Claire D. Coles, Heather Carmichael Olson, Sandra W. Jacobson, Joseph L. Jacobson

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[397] arXiv:2012.12135 [pdf, other]

Title: COVID-19: Optimal Design of Serosurveys for Disease Burden Estimation

Siva Athreya, Giridhara R. Babu, Aniruddha Iyer, Mohammed Minhaas B.S., Nihesh Rathod, Sharad Shriram, Rajesh Sundaresan, Nidhin Koshy Vaidhiyan, Sarath Yasodharan

Comments: 12 pages

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[398] arXiv:2012.12144 [pdf, other]

Title: Integrating computing in the statistics and data science curriculum: Creative structures, novel skills and habits, and ways to teach computational thinking

Nicholas J. Horton, Johanna S. Hardin

Comments: In press, Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

Subjects: Other Statistics (stat.OT); Computation (stat.CO)

[399] arXiv:2012.12196 [pdf, other]

Title: Identifiability of Bifactor Models

Guanhua Fang, Xin Xu, Jinxin Guo, Zhiliang Ying, Susu Zhang

Comments: 89 pages

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

[400] arXiv:2012.12198 [pdf, other]

Title: Forensic strength of evidence statements should preferably be likelihood ratios calculated using relevant data, quantitative measurements, and statistical models

Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Reinoud D Stoel

Journal-ref: Aus J Forensic Sciences, 46, 282-292 (2014)

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)