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The aim of this Lecture Note is to introduce the Signal Processing (SP) community to a powerful yet still under-utilised tool: the semiparametric statistics. In short, the semiparametric framework allows us to estimate or perform hypothesis…
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Parametric and semiparametric tests of circular reflective symmetry about an unknown central direction are developed that are locally and asymptotically optimal in the Le Cam sense against asymmetric $k$-sine-skewed alternatives. The…
In this article, we develop a test for multivariate location parameter in elliptical model based on the forward search estimator for a specified scatter matrix. Here, we study the asymptotic power of the test under contiguous alternatives…
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