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Let $X^{(n)}$ be an observation sampled from a distribution $P_{\theta}^{(n)}$ with an unknown parameter $\theta,$ $\theta$ being a vector in a Banach space $E$ (most often, a high-dimensional space of dimension $d$). We study the problem…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Vladimir Koltchinskii

Let $\mathbf{x}_j = \mathbf{\theta} + \mathbf{\epsilon}_j$, $j=1,\dots,n$ be i.i.d. copies of a Gaussian random vector $\mathbf{x}\sim\mathcal{N}(\mathbf{\theta},\mathbf{\Sigma})$ with unknown mean $\mathbf{\theta} \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Fan Zhou , Ping Li

This paper deals with the parametric inference for integrated signals embedded in an additive Gaussian noise and observed at deterministic discrete instants which are not necessarily equidistant. The unknown parameter is multidimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Dominique Dehay , Khalil El Waled , Vincent Monsan

In the standard Gaussian linear measurement model $Y=X\mu_0+\xi \in \mathbb{R}^m$ with a fixed noise level $\sigma>0$, we consider the problem of estimating the unknown signal $\mu_0$ under a convex constraint $\mu_0 \in K$, where $K$ is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Qiyang Han

The Bayesian methods for linear inverse problems is studied using hierarchical Gaussian models. The problems are considered with different discretizations, and we analyze the phenomena which appear when the discretization becomes finer. A…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-14 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas

Asymptotic efficiency is proved for the constructed in part 1 procedure, i.e. Pinsker's constant is found in the asymptotic lower bound for the minimax quadratic risk. It is shown that the asymptotic minimax quadratic risk of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Leonid Galtchouk , Serguey Pergamenshchikov

We study a problem of estimation of smooth functionals of parameter $\theta $ of Gaussian shift model $$ X=\theta +\xi,\ \theta \in E, $$ where $E$ is a separable Banach space and $X$ is an observation of unknown vector $\theta$ in Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Vladimir Koltchinskii , Mayya Zhilova

Gaussian quadrature rules are a classical tool for the numerical approximation of integrals with smooth integrands and positive weight functions. We derive and expicitly list asymptotic expressions for the points and weights of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Peter Opsomer , Daan Huybrechs

In this paper we build provably near-optimal, in the minimax sense, estimates of linear forms and, more generally, "$N$-convex functionals" (the simplest example being the maximum of several fractional-linear functions) of unknown "signal"…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Tensor regression has attracted significant attention in statistical research. This study tackles the challenge of handling covariates with smooth varying structures. We introduce a novel framework, termed functional tensor regression,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-12 Tongyu Li , Fang Yao , Anru R. Zhang

An adaptive nonparametric estimation procedure is constructed for heteroscedastic regression when the noise variance depends on the unknown regression. A non-asymptotic upper bound for a quadratic risk (oracle inequality) is obtained

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-09 Leonid Galtchouk , Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

This paper considers adaptive, minimax estimation of a quadratic functional in a nonparametric instrumental variables (NPIV) model, which is an important problem in optimal estimation of a nonlinear functional of an ill-posed inverse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Christoph Breunig , Xiaohong Chen

We consider the fundamental problem of solving quadratic systems of equations in $n$ variables, where $y_i = |\langle \boldsymbol{a}_i, \boldsymbol{x} \rangle|^2$, $i = 1, \ldots, m$ and $\boldsymbol{x} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is unknown. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Yuxin Chen , Emmanuel J. Candes

We consider a multivariate functional measurement error model $AX\approx B$. The errors in $[A,B]$ are uncorrelated, row-wise independent, and have equal (unknown) variances. We study the total least squares estimator of $X$, which, in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Alexander Kukush , Yaroslav Tsaregorodtsev

In this article, we consider the problem of estimating the index parameter $\alpha_0$ in the single index model $E[Y |X] = f_0(\alpha_0^T X)$ with $f_0$ the unknown ridge function defined on $\mathbb{R}$, $X$ a d-dimensional covariate and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Fadoua Balabdaoui , Gian-Andrea Thanei

We consider the statistical inverse problem of recovering a parameter $\theta\in H^\alpha$ from data arising from the Gaussian regression problem \begin{equation*} Y = \mathscr{G}(\theta)(Z)+\varepsilon \end{equation*} with nonlinear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Maximilian Siebel

For $D$ a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^d, d \ge 2,$ with smooth boundary $\partial D$, the non-linear inverse problem of recovering the unknown conductivity $\gamma$ determining solutions $u=u_{\gamma, f}$ of the partial differential…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Kweku Abraham , Richard Nickl

We study a minimax risk of estimating inverse functions on a plane, while keeping an estimator is also invertible. Learning invertibility from data and exploiting an invertible estimator are used in many domains, such as statistics,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Akifumi Okuno , Masaaki Imaizumi

We prove conditional asymptotic normality of a class of quadratic U-statistics that are dominated by their degenerate second order part and have kernels that change with the number of observations. These statistics arise in the construction…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-09 James Robins , Lingling Li , Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen , Aad van der Vaart

Motivated by applications in genomics, this paper studies the problem of optimal estimation of a quadratic functional of two normal mean vectors, $Q(\mu, \theta) = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n\mu_i^2\theta_i^2$, with a particular focus on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-08 T. Tony Cai , Xin Lu Tan