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Multivariate linear regressions are widely used statistical tools in many applications to model the associations between multiple related responses and a set of predictors. To infer such associations, it is often of interest to test the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Yinqiu He , Tiefeng Jiang , Jiyang Wen , Gongjun Xu

We study a statistical model for infinite dimensional Gaussian random variables with unknown parameters. For this model we derive linear estimators for the mean and the variance of the Gaussian distribution. Furthermore, we construct…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Stefan Tappe

This paper aims to test the number of spikes in a generalized spiked covariance matrix, the spiked eigenvalues of which may be extremely larger or smaller than the non-spiked ones. For a high-dimensional problem, we first propose a general…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-15 Dandan Jiang

Nonparametric generalized likelihood ratio test is popularly used for model checking for regressions. However, there are two issues that may be the barriers for its powerfulness. First, the bias term in its liming null distribution causes…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-23 Cuizhen Niu , Xu Guo , Lixing Zhu

In this paper a robust version of the classical Wald test statistics for linear hypothesis in the logistic regression model is introduced and its properties are explored. We study the problem under the assumption of random covariates…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Ayandrendanath Basu , Abhik Ghosh , Abhijit Mandal , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

This paper studies the Gaussian and bootstrap approximations for the probabilities of a non-degenerate U-statistic belonging to the hyperrectangles in $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the dimension $d$ is large. A two-step Gaussian approximation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Xiaohui Chen

Many studies include a goal of determining whether there is treatment effect heterogeneity across different subpopulations. In this paper, we propose a U-statistic-based non-parametric test of the null hypothesis that the treatment effects…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-08 Maozhu Dai , Hal S. Stern

A formal likelihood ratio hypothesis test for the validity of a parametric regression function is proposed, using a large-dimensional, nonparametric double cone alternative. For example, the test against a constant function uses the…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-30 Bodhisattva Sen , Mary Meyer

We address the issue of performing testing inference in generalized linear models when the sample size is small. This class of models provides a straightforward way of modeling normal and non-normal data and has been widely used in several…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-16 Tiago M. Vargas , Silvia L. P. Ferrari , Artur J. Lemonte

In this article, we propose a class of test statistics for a change point in the mean of high-dimensional independent data. Our test integrates the U-statistic based approach in a recent work by \cite{hdcp} and the $L_q$-norm based…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Yangfan Zhang , Runmin Wang , Xiaofeng Shao

The standard A/B testing approaches are mostly based on t-test in large scale industry applications. These standard approaches however suffers from low statistical power in business settings, due to nature of small sample-size or…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Changshuai Wei , Phuc Nguyen , Benjamin Zelditch , Joyce Chen

While there is considerable work on change point analysis in univariate time series, more and more data being collected comes from high dimensional multivariate settings. This paper introduces the asymptotic concept of high dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-28 John A. D. Aston , Claudia Kirch

A notion of local $U$-statistic process is introduced and central limit theorems in various norms are obtained for it. This involves the development of several inequalities for $U$-processes that may be useful in other contexts. This local…

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We propose a general framework for the specification testing of continuous treatment effect models. We assume a general residual function, which includes the average and quantile treatment effect models as special cases. The null models are…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-09-06 Wei Huang , Oliver Linton , Zheng Zhang

Assume that we have a random sample from an absolutely continuous distribution (univariate, or multivariate) with a known functional form and some unknown parameters. In this paper, we have studied several parametric tests based on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Rahul Singh , Neeraj Misra

This paper considers testing the covariance matrices structure based on Wald's score test in large dimensional setting. The hypothesis $H_0: \Sigma =\Sigma_0 $ for a given matrix $\Sigma_0$, which covers the identity hypothesis test and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-01 Dandan Jiang , QiBin Zhang

We formulate nonparametric and semiparametric hypothesis testing of multivariate stationary linear time series in a unified fashion and propose new test statistics based on estimators of the spectral density matrix. The limiting…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Yoshihiro Yajima , Yasumasa Matsuda

In typical high dimensional statistical inference problems, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests are performed for a low dimensional subset of model parameters under the assumption that the parameters of interest are unconstrained.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-19 Ming Yu , Varun Gupta , Mladen Kolar

The ratio between two probability density functions is an important component of various tasks, including selection bias correction, novelty detection and classification. Recently, several estimators of this ratio have been proposed. Most…

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