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Recovering the random graph model from an observed collection of networks is known to present significant challenges in the setting, where the networks do not share a common node set and have different sizes. More specifically, the goal is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Roland Boniface Sogan , Tabea Rebafka

Linear structural equation models, which relate random variables via linear interdependencies and Gaussian noise, are a popular tool for modeling multivariate joint distributions. These models correspond to mixed graphs that include both…

Computation · Statistics 2015-04-14 Mathias Drton , Luca Weihs

Estimating heritability remains a significant challenge in statistical genetics. Diverse approaches have emerged over the years that are broadly categorized as either random effects or fixed effects heritability methods. In this work, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-18 Yanke Song , Xihong Lin , Pragya Sur

We provide full theoretical guarantees for the convergence behaviour of diffusion-based generative models under the assumption of strongly log-concave data distributions while our approximating class of functions used for score estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Stefano Bruno , Ying Zhang , Dong-Young Lim , Ömer Deniz Akyildiz , Sotirios Sabanis

Stepped-wedge designs are increasingly used in randomized experiments to accommodate logistical and ethical constraints by staggering treatment roll-out over time. Despite their popularity, existing analytical methods largely rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-12 Liangbo Lyu , Bingkai Wang

We provide a unified approach to a method of estimation of the regression parameter in balanced linear models with a structured covariance matrix that combines a high breakdown point and bounded influence with high asymptotic efficiency at…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Hendrik Paul Lopuhaä

We consider the problem of collaborative distributed estimation in a large scale sensor network with statistically dependent sensor observations. In collaborative setup, the aim is to maximize the overall estimation performance by modeling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Shan Zhang , Pranay Sharma , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

In this paper, for the problem of heteroskedastic general linear hypothesis testing (GLHT) in high-dimensional settings, we propose a random integration method based on the reference L2-norm to deal with such problems. The asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Mingxiang Cao , Hongwei Zhang , Kai Xu , Daojiang He

The linear fractional stable motion generalizes two prominent classes of stochastic processes, namely stable L\'evy processes, and fractional Brownian motion. For this reason it may be regarded as a basic building block for continuous time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Fabian Mies , Mark Podolskij

It is well-known that adaptive homodyne estimation of continuously varying optical phase provides superior accuracy in the phase estimate as compared to adaptive or non-adaptive static estimation. However, most phase estimation schemes rely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Shibdas Roy , Ian R. Petersen , Elanor H. Huntington

We consider the design of differentially private Luenberger observers for positive linear systems. In particular, we derive a bound for the $l_2$ sensitivity of Luenberger observers, which is used to quantify the noise required to achieve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Aisling McGlinchey , Oliver Mason

In this work we study the averaging principle for non-autonomous slow-fast systems of stochastic differential equations. In particular in the first part we prove the averaging principle assuming the sublinearity, the Lipschitzianity and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Filippo de Feo

Commonly employed reconstruction algorithms in compressed sensing (CS) use the $L_2$ norm as the metric for the residual error. However, it is well-known that least squares (LS) based estimators are highly sensitive to outliers present in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Rafael E. Carrillo , Kenneth E. Barner

This paper addresses the estimation of locally stationary long-range dependent processes, a methodology that allows the statistical analysis of time series data exhibiting both nonstationarity and strong dependency. A time-varying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-12 Wilfredo Palma , Ricardo Olea

We study online inference and asymptotic covariance estimation for the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm. While classical methods (such as plug-in and batch-means estimators) are available, they either require inaccessible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Ziyang Wei , Wanrong Zhu , Jingyang Lyu , Wei Biao Wu

Estimating the mixing density of a mixture distribution remains an interesting problem in statistics literature. Using a stochastic approximation method, Newton and Zhang (1999) introduced a fast recursive algorithm for estimating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Nilabja Guha , Anindya Roy

Recent advances in the literature have demonstrated that standard supervised learning algorithms are ill-suited for problems with endogenous explanatory variables. To correct for the endogeneity bias, many variants of nonparameteric…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-01-18 Edvard Bakhitov , Amandeep Singh

Several interesting generative learning algorithms involve a complex probability distribution over many random variables, involving intractable normalization constants or latent variable normalization. Some of them may even not have an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Yoshua Bengio , Li Yao , Kyunghyun Cho

The recently published ICH E9 addendum on estimands in clinical trials provides a framework for precisely defining the treatment effect that is to be estimated, but says little about estimation methods. Here we report analyses of a clinical…

Applications · Statistics 2023-09-25 Camila Olarte Parra , Rhian M. Daniel , David Wright , Jonathan W. Bartlett

We derive quantitative bounds on the rate of convergence in $L^1$ Wasserstein distance of general M-estimators, with an almost sharp (up to a logarithmic term) behavior in the number of observations. We focus on situations where the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-19 François Bachoc , Max Fathi