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Template Matching with Ranks

Statistics Theory 2020-12-16 v1 Signal Processing Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider the problem of matching a template to a noisy signal. Motivated by some recent proposals in the signal processing literature, we suggest a rank-based method and study its asymptotic properties using some well-established techniques in empirical process theory combined with H\'ajek's projection method. The resulting estimator of the shift is shown to achieve a parametric rate of convergence and to be asymptotically normal. Some numerical simulations corroborate these findings.

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@article{arxiv.2012.07937,
  title  = {Template Matching with Ranks},
  author = {Ery Arias-Castro and Lin Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.07937},
  year   = {2020}
}
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