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The Sparse Variance Contamination Model

Statistics Theory 2018-07-31 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We consider a Gaussian contamination (i.e., mixture) model where the contamination manifests itself as a change in variance. We study this model in various asymptotic regimes, in parallel with the work of Ingster (1997) and Donoho and Jin (2004), who considered a similar model where the contamination was in the mean instead.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1807.10785,
  title  = {The Sparse Variance Contamination Model},
  author = {Ery Arias-Castro and Rong Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10785},
  year   = {2018}
}
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