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For many inference problems in statistics and econometrics, the unknown parameter is identified by a set of moment conditions. A generic method of solving moment conditions is the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). However, classical GMM…

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We consider the problem of mean estimation assuming only finite variance. We study a new class of mean estimators constructed by integrating over random noise applied to a soft-truncated empirical mean estimator. For appropriate choices of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Matthew J. Holland

The maximum likelihood principle is widely used in statistics, and the associated estimators often display good properties. indeed maximum likelihood estimators are guaranteed to be asymptotically efficient under mild conditions. However in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Christophe Culan , Claude Adnet

For a convex class of functions $F$, a regularization functions $\Psi(\cdot)$ and given the random data $(X_i, Y_i)_{i=1}^N$, we study estimation properties of regularization procedures of the form \begin{equation*} \hat f \in {\rm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Guillaume Lecué , Shahar Mendelson

Statistical inference, a central tool of science, revolves around the study and the usage of statistical estimators: functions that map finite samples to predictions about unknown distribution parameters. In the frequentist framework,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Maxime Peyrard , Kyunghyun Cho

The standard approach for dealing with the ill-posedness of the training problem in machine learning and/or the reconstruction of a signal from a limited number of measurements is regularization. The method is applicable whenever the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Michael Unser

Analysis of non-asymptotic estimation error and structured statistical recovery based on norm regularized regression, such as Lasso, needs to consider four aspects: the norm, the loss function, the design matrix, and the noise model. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Arindam Banerjee , Sheng Chen , Farideh Fazayeli , Vidyashankar Sivakumar

This paper discusses regularized estimators in the multivariate statistical model as tools naturally arising within a Bayesian framework. First, a link is established between Bayesian estimation and inference under parameter rounding…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Jan Kalina

The problem of nonparametric inference on a monotone function has been extensively studied in many particular cases. Estimators considered have often been of so-called Grenander type, being representable as the left derivative of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Ted Westling , Marco Carone

The many-normal-means problem is a classic example that motivates the development of many important inferential procedures in the history of statistics. In this short note, we consider a further special case of the problem, which involves…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Yang Liu , Jonathan P. Williams

The reconstruction of low-rank matrix from its noisy observation finds its usage in many applications. It can be reformulated into a constrained nuclear norm minimization problem, where the bound $\eta$ of the constraint is explicitly given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Kexin Li , Hongwei Li , Raymond H. Chan , You-wei Wen

Shrinkage estimators of covariance are an important tool in modern applied and theoretical statistics. They play a key role in regularized estimation problems, such as ridge regression (aka Tykhonov regularization), regularized discriminant…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-10 Noureddine El Karoui , Holger Koesters

Spatiotemporal matrix-valued data arise frequently in modern applications, yet performing effective regression analysis remains challenging due to complex, dimension-specific dependencies. In this work, we propose a regularized framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Meixia Lin , Ziyang Zeng , Yangjing Zhang

A common challenge in estimating parameters of probability density functions is the intractability of the normalizing constant. While in such cases maximum likelihood estimation may be implemented using numerical integration, the approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Shiqing Yu , Mathias Drton , Ali Shojaie

In many problems from multivariate analysis, the parameter of interest is a shape matrix, that is, a normalized version of the corresponding scatter or dispersion matrix. In this paper, we propose a depth concept for shape matrices that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Davy Paindaveine , Germain Van Bever

In this paper, we consider a regularization strategy for the factorization method when there is noise added to the data operator. The factorization method is a qualitative method used in shape reconstruction problems. These methods are…

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The $k$-support norm is a regularizer which has been successfully applied to sparse vector prediction problems. We show that it belongs to a general class of norms which can be formulated as a parameterized infimum over quadratics. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-07 Andrew M. McDonald , Massimiliano Pontil , Dimitris Stamos

Generalized linear mixed models are powerful tools for analyzing clustered data, where the unknown parameters are classically (and most commonly) estimated by the maximum likelihood and restricted maximum likelihood procedures. However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Andrea M. Bratsberg , Magne Thoresen , Abhik Ghosh

We mainly study the M-estimation method for the high-dimensional linear regression model, and discuss the properties of M-estimator when the penalty term is the local linear approximation. In fact, M-estimation method is a framework, which…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Kai Wang , Yanling Zhu

We consider model selection in generalized linear models (GLM) for high-dimensional data and propose a wide class of model selection criteria based on penalized maximum likelihood with a complexity penalty on the model size. We derive a…

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