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The ability to detect change-points in a dynamic network or a time series of graphs is an increasingly important task in many applications of the emerging discipline of graph signal processing. This paper formulates change-point detection…

Applications · Statistics 2023-07-19 Heng Wang , Minh Tang , Youngser Park , Carey E. Priebe

Testing equality of two multivariate distributions is a classical problem for which many non-parametric tests have been proposed over the years. Most of the popular two-sample tests, which are asymptotically distribution-free, are based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

The network data has attracted considerable attention in modern statistics. In research on complex network data, one key issue is finding its underlying connection structure given a network sample. The methods that have been proposed in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-09 Kang Fu , Jianwei Hu , Seydou Keita

Two-sample hypothesis testing for network comparison presents many significant challenges, including: leveraging repeated network observations and known node registration, but without requiring them to operate; relaxing strong structural…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 Meijia Shao , Dong Xia , Yuan Zhang , Qiong Wu , Shuo Chen

We present new families of goodness-of-fit tests of uniformity on a full-dimensional set $W\subset\R^d$ based on statistics related to edge lengths of random geometric graphs. Asymptotic normality of these statistics is proven under the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Bruno Ebner , Franz Nestmann , Matthias Schulte

We consider multivariate two-sample tests of means, where the location shift between the two populations is expected to be related to a known graph structure. An important application of such tests is the detection of differentially…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-16 Laurent Jacob , Pierre Neuvial , Sandrine Dudoit

We formalize the problem of detecting the presence of a botnet in a network as an hypothesis testing problem where we observe a single instance of a graph. The null hypothesis, corresponding to the absence of a botnet, is modeled as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Gianmarco Bet , Kay Bogerd , Rui M. Castro , Remco van der Hofstad

We construct and analyze a neural network two-sample test to determine whether two datasets came from the same distribution (null hypothesis) or not (alternative hypothesis). We perform time-analysis on a neural tangent kernel (NTK)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-11 Varun Khurana , Xiuyuan Cheng , Alexander Cloninger

In this article, we consider the problem of simultaneous testing of hypotheses when the individual test statistics are not necessarily independent. Specifically, we consider the problem of simultaneous testing of point null hypotheses…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Prasenjit Ghosh , Arijit Chakrabarti

The paper proves the equivalence of the notions of nondeterministic and deterministic parameter testing for uniform dense hypergraphs of arbitrary order. It generalizes the result previously known only for the case of simple graphs. By a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Marek Karpinski , Roland Markó

In this work we address the problem of detecting whether a sampled probability distribution of a random variable $V$ has infinite first moment. This issue is notably important when the sample results from complex numerical simulation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Héctor Olivero , Denis Talay

Hypothesis testing is a statistical method used to draw conclusions about populations from sample data, typically represented in tables. With the prevalence of graph representations in real-life applications, hypothesis testing in graphs is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-27 Yun Wang , Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Sihem Amer-Yahia , Reynold Cheng

In this work we show that, using the eigen-decomposition of the adjacency matrix, we can consistently estimate latent positions for random dot product graphs provided the latent positions are i.i.d. from some distribution. If class labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-31 Daniel L. Sussman , Minh Tang , Carey E. Priebe

Two-sample tests evaluate whether two samples are realizations of the same distribution (the null hypothesis) or two different distributions (the alternative hypothesis). We consider a new setting for this problem where sample features are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Weizhi Li , Gautam Dasarathy , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Visar Berisha

Suppose two networks are observed for the same set of nodes, where each network is assumed to be generated from a weighted stochastic block model. This paper considers the problem of testing whether the community memberships of the two…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Yezheng Li , Hongzhe Li

We consider the problem of detecting whether a power-law inhomogeneous random graph contains a geometric community, and we frame this as an hypothesis testing problem. More precisely, we assume that we are given a sample from an unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Gianmarco Bet , Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis

In the study of random structures we often face a trade-off between realism and tractability, the latter typically enabled by assuming some form of independence. In this work we initiate an effort to bridge this gap by developing tools that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Dimitris Achlioptas , Paris Siminelakis

We study the problem of two-sample comparison with categorical data when the contingency table is sparsely populated. In modern applications, the number of categories is often comparable to the sample size, causing existing methods to have…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-14 Hao Chen , Nancy R. Zhang

Networks arise naturally in many scientific fields as a representation of pairwise connections. Statistical network analysis has most often considered a single large network, but it is common in a number of applications to observe multiple…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-16 Peter W. MacDonald , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Graph-based tests are a class of non-parametric two-sample tests useful for analyzing high-dimensional data. The test statistics are constructed from similarity graphs (such as K-minimum spanning tree), and consequently, their performance…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-23 Yichuan Bai , Lynna Chu