English
Related papers

Related papers: Fourier methods for smooth distribution function e…

200 papers

We propose to smooth the entire objective function, rather than only the check function, in a linear quantile regression context. Not only does the resulting smoothed quantile regression estimator yield a lower mean squared error and a more…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-08-16 Marcelo Fernandes , Emmanuel Guerre , Eduardo Horta

This paper presents a novel boundary-optimized fast Fourier extension algorithm for efficient approximation of non-periodic functions. The proposed methodology constructs periodic extensions through strategic utilization of boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Z. Y. Zhao , Y. F Wang , A. G. Yagola

Despite their success, kernel methods suffer from a massive computational cost in practice. In this paper, in lieu of commonly used kernel expansion with respect to $N$ inputs, we develop a novel optimal design maximizing the entropy among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Liang Ding , Rui Tuo , Shahin Shahrampour

We implement and test kernel averaging Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform (NUFFT) methods to enhance the performance of correlation and covariance estimation on asynchronously sampled event-data using the Malliavin-Mancino Fourier…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-11-11 Patrick Chang , Etienne Pienaar , Tim Gebbie

One of the most efficient ways to produce unconditional simulations is with the spectral method using fast Fourier transform (FFT) [1]. But this approach is not applicable to arbitrary surfaces because no regular grid exists. However,…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-08 Alexander Gribov

Higher-order spectra (or polyspectra), defined as the Fourier Transform of a stationary process' autocumulants, are useful in the analysis of nonlinear and non Gaussian processes. Polyspectral means are weighted averages over Fourier…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Dhrubajyoti Ghosh , Tucker McElroy , Soumendra Lahiri

There has been an increasing interest in leveraging machine learning tools for chatter prediction and diagnosis in discrete manufacturing processes. Some of the most common features for studying chatter include traditional signal processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh

There is an intense and partly recent literature focussing on the problem of selecting the bandwidth parameter for kernel density estimators. Available methods are largely `very nonparametric', in the sense of not requiring any knowledge…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-17 Nils Lid Hjort

We study the volatility functional inference by Fourier transforms. This spectral framework is advantageous in that it harnesses the power of harmonic analysis to handle missing data and asynchronous observations without any artificial time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Richard Y. Chen

We address the problem of uncertainty propagation in the discrete Fourier transform by modeling the fast Fourier transform as a factor graph. Building on this representation, we propose an efficient framework for approximate Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Luca Schmid , Charlotte Muth , Laurent Schmalen

Distributed statistical inference has recently attracted enormous attention. Many existing work focuses on the averaging estimator. We propose a one-step approach to enhance a simple-averaging based distributed estimator. We derive the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-11 Cheng Huang , Xiaoming Huo

A new definition of a fractional derivative has recently been developed, making use of a fractional Dirac delta function as its integral kernel. This derivative allows for the definition of a distributional fractional derivative, and as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Evan Camrud

We propose a novel regression adjustment method designed for estimating distributional treatment effect parameters in randomized experiments. Randomized experiments have been extensively used to estimate treatment effects in various…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-07-24 Undral Byambadalai , Tatsushi Oka , Shota Yasui

Multivariate kernel density estimations have received much spate of interest. In addition to conventional methods of (non-)classical associated-kernels for (un)bounded densities and bandwidth selections, the multiple extended-beta kernel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Sobom M. Somé , Célestin C. Kokonendji , Francial G. B. Libengué Dobélé-Kpoka

We propose a Fourier-based learning algorithm for highly nonlinear multiclass classification. The algorithm is based on a smoothing technique to calculate the probability distribution of all classes. To obtain the probability distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Soheil Mehrabkhani

This paper gives a general method for deriving limiting distributions of complete case statistics for missing data models from corresponding results for the model where all data are observed. This provides a convenient tool for obtaining…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Hira L. Koul , Ursula U. Müller , Anton Schick

Semicontinuous outcomes occur frequently in health services, insurance, and cost studies. Standard nonparametric density estimators are not well suited to such data because they do not naturally accommodate the mixed structure, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-06 Guanjie Lyu , Frédéric Ouimet , Cindy Feng

In nonparametric classification and regression problems, regularized kernel methods, in particular support vector machines, attract much attention in theoretical and in applied statistics. In an abstract sense, regularized kernel methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-13 Robert Hable

To investigate a dilemma of statistical and computational efficiency faced by long-run variance estimators, we propose a decomposition of kernel weights in a quadratic form and some online inference principles. These proposals allow us to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-10 Man Fung Leung , Kin Wai Chan

The computational efficiency of many neural operators, widely used for learning solutions of PDEs, relies on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) for performing spectral computations. As the FFT is limited to equispaced (rectangular) grids,…