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The statistical analysis of discrete data has been the subject of extensive statistical research dating back to the work of Pearson. In this survey we review some recently developed methods for testing hypotheses about high-dimensional…

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In this paper, we use the dimensional reduction technique to study the central limit theory (CLT) random quadratic forms based on sample means and sample covariance matrices. Specifically, we use a matrix denoted by $U_{p\times q}$, to map…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Wenzhi Yang , Yiming Liu , Guangming Pan , Wang Zhou

The asymptotic efficiency, ARE_{p,2}, of the tests for multivariate means theta in \R^d based on the p-means relative to the standard 2-mean, (approximate) likelihood ratio test (LRT), is considered for large dimensions d. It turns out that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Iosif Pinelis

While the problem of testing multivariate normality has received considerable attention in the classical low-dimensional setting where the sample size $n$ is much larger than the feature dimension $d$ of the data, there is presently a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Xin Bing , Derek Latremouille

We prove a central limit theorem applicable to one dimensional stochastic approximation algorithms that converge to a point where the error terms of the algorithm do not vanish. We show how this applies to a certain class of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Henrik Renlund

Wald-type tests are convenient because they allow one to test a wide array of linear and nonlinear restrictions from a single unrestricted estimator; we focus on the problem of implementing Wald-type tests for nonlinear restrictions. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Jean-Marie Dufour , Eric Renault , Victoria Zinde-Walsh

In this paper, we propose corrections to the likelihood ratio test and John's test for sphericity in large-dimensions. New formulas for the limiting parameters in the CLT for linear spectral statistics of sample covariance matrices with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Qinwen Wang , Jianfeng Yao

The likelihood ratio statistic, with its asymptotic $\chi^2$ distribution at regular model points, is often used for hypothesis testing. At model singularities and boundaries, however, the asymptotic distribution may not be $\chi^2$, as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Jonathan D. Mitchell , Elizabeth S. Allman , John A. Rhodes

Assume that X is a set of sample statistics which follow a special case Central Limit Theorem, namely: as the sample size n increases the corresponding distribution becomes multivariate Normal with the mean (of each X) equal to zero and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Hao Yuan Zhang , Jan Vrbik

In this work, we are motivated by the recent work of Zhang et al. (2019) and study a new invariant test for equality of two large scale covariance matrices. Two modified likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) by Zhang et al. (2019) are based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Taehyeon Koo , Seonghun Cho , Johan Lim

Even though the Rao's score tests are classical tests, such as the likelihood ratio tests, their application has been avoided until now in a multivariate framework, in particular high-dimensional setting. We consider they could play an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Nirian Martín

In this paper, we establish the central limit theorem (CLT) for linear spectral statistics (LSSs) of a large-dimensional sample covariance matrix when the population covariance matrices are involved with diverging spikes. This constitutes a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Zhijun Liu , Jiang Hu , Zhidong Bai , Haiyan Song

We study the likelihood ratio test in general mixture models where the base density is parametric, the null is a known fixed mixing distribution, and the alternative is a general mixing distribution supported on a bounded parameter space.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Yan Zhang , Stanislav Volgushev

This paper proposes a new test for covariance matrices structure based on the correction to Rao's score test in large dimensional framework. By generalizing the CLT for the linear spectral statistics of large dimensional sample covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-22 Dandan Jiang

This paper considers testing a covariance matrix $\Sigma$ in the high dimensional setting where the dimension $p$ can be comparable or much larger than the sample size $n$. The problem of testing the hypothesis $H_0:\Sigma=\Sigma_0$ for a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-18 T. Tony Cai , Zongming Ma

The law of large numbers (LLN) and central limit theorem (CLT) are long and widely been known as two fundamental results in probability theory. Recently problems of model uncertainties in statistics, measures of risk and superhedging in…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shige Peng

We study the properties of several likelihood-based statistics commonly used in testing for the presence of a known signal under a mixture model with known background, but unknown signal fraction. Under the null hypothesis of no signal, all…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-26 Igor Volobouev , A. Alexandre Trindade

We consider the problem of testing the mean of high-dimensional data when the dimension may grow without explicit rate restrictions relative to the sample size. The proposed procedure is based on the statistic V_n = n||Xn||^2, which avoids…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Dietmar Ferger

The multivariate central limit theorems (CLT) for the volumes of excursion sets of stationary quasi-associated random fields on $\mathbb{R}^d$ are proved. Special attention is paid to Gaussian and shot noise fields. Formulae for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Alexander Bulinski , Evgeny Spodarev , Florian Timmermann

We consider two classical ensembles of the random matrix theory: the Wigner matrices and sample covariance matrices, and prove Central Limit Theorem for linear eigenvalue statistics under rather weak (comparing with results known before)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 Mariya Shcherbina