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We present a framework for inferring the dark matter halo masses of quasars and [O III]-emitting galaxies from JWST/NIRCam Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) clustering measurements at z approximately 6. Using the FLAMINGO-10k N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jiamu Huang , Elia Pizzati , Joseph F. Hennawi , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Benjamin Snyder , Yi Kang

Measurements of the redshift-space galaxy clustering have been a prolific source of cosmological information in recent years. Accurate covariance estimates are an essential step for the validation of galaxy clustering models of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jan Niklas Grieb , Ariel G. Sánchez , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

This work develops formal statistical inference procedures for machine learning ensemble methods. Ensemble methods based on bootstrapping, such as bagging and random forests, have improved the predictive accuracy of individual trees, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-11 Lucas Mentch , Giles Hooker

In this paper, we investigate the (in)-consistency of different bootstrap methods for constructing confidence intervals in the class of estimators that converge at rate $n^{1/3}$. The Grenander estimator, the nonparametric maximum…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Bodhisattva Sen , Moulinath Banerjee , Michael Woodroofe

The DEEP2 project will obtain redshifts for ~60,000 galaxies between z~0.7-1.5 in a comoving volume of 7 10^6 Mpc/h^3 for an LCDM universe. The survey will map four separate 2 by 0.5 degree strips of the sky. To study the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alison L. Coil , Marc Davis , Istvan Szapudi

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

The number density and correlation function of galaxies are two key quantities to characterize the distribution of the observed galaxy population. High-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, which usually involve complex target selection and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-05 Jiacheng Meng , Cheng Li , Houjun Mo , Yangyao Chen , Kai Wang

Bootstrap is a widely used technique that allows estimating the properties of a given estimator, such as its bias and standard error. In this paper, we evaluate and compare five bootstrap-based methods for making confidence intervals: two…

In a recent study, we developed a method to model the impact of photometric redshift uncertainty on the two-point correlation function (2PCF). In this method, we can obtain both the intrinsic clustering strength and the photometric redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-29 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Yipeng Jing , Kai Wang , Hong Guo , Fuyu Dong , Min He

The goal of this paper is to study the bootstrap for the Grenander estimator. The first result is a proof of the inconsistency of the nonparametric bootstrap for the Grenander estimator at a given point. The second result is the development…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Michael R. Kosorok

We investigate the potential and accuracy of clustering-based redshift estimation using the method proposed by M\'enard et al. (2013). This technique enables the inference of redshift distributions from measurements of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Samuel J. Schmidt , Christopher B. Morrison

Redshift-space distortions in the clustering of galaxy clusters provide a novel probe to test the gravity theory on cosmological scales. The aim of this work is to derive new constraints on the linear growth rate of cosmic structures from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-12 Federico Marulli , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Michele Moresco , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

Conformal regression provides prediction intervals with global coverage guarantees, but often fails to capture local error distributions, leading to non-homogeneous coverage. We address this with a new adaptive method based on rescaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nicolas Deutschmann , Mattia Rigotti , Maria Rodriguez Martinez

We analyze bias correction methods using jackknife, bootstrap, and Taylor series. We focus on the binomial model, and consider the problem of bias correction for estimating $f(p)$, where $f \in C[0,1]$ is arbitrary. We characterize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Jiantao Jiao , Yanjun Han

Using multiple tracers of large-scale structure allows to evade the limitations imposed by sampling variance for some parameters of interest in cosmology. We demonstrate the optimal way of carrying out a multitracer analysis in a galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-22 Nico Hamaus , Uroš Seljak , Vincent Desjacques

When analyzing galaxy clustering in multi-band imaging surveys, there is a trade-off between selecting the largest galaxy samples (to minimize the shot noise) and selecting samples with the best photometric redshift (photo-z) precision,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Chihway Chang , Joshua Frieman

Bootstrap is a popular methodology for simulating input uncertainty. However, it can be computationally expensive when the number of samples is large. We propose a new approach called \textbf{Orthogonal Bootstrap} that reduces the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-02 Kaizhao Liu , Jose Blanchet , Lexing Ying , Yiping Lu

We study the gradient wild bootstrap-based inference for instrumental variable quantile regressions in the framework of a small number of large clusters in which the number of clusters is viewed as fixed, and the number of observations for…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-08-21 Wenjie Wang , Yichong Zhang

We report on a broader evaluation of statistical bootstrap resampling methods as a tool for pixel-level calibration and imaging fidelity assessment in radio interferometry. Pixel-level imaging fidelity assessment is a challenging problem,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Athol Kemball , Adam Martinsek , Modhurita Mitra , Hsin-Fang Chiang

When we use simulation to evaluate the performance of a stochastic system, the simulation often contains input distributions estimated from real-world data; therefore, there is both simulation and input uncertainty in the performance…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-10 Wei Xie , Barry L. Nelson , Russell R. Barton