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The robust Poisson method is becoming increasingly popular when estimating the association of exposures with a binary outcome. Unlike the logistic regression model, the robust Poisson method yields results that can be interpreted as risk or…

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Multivariate count data are commonly encountered through high-throughput sequencing technologies in bioinformatics, text mining, or in sports analytics. Although the Poisson distribution seems a natural fit to these count data, its…

Computation · Statistics 2020-04-16 Sanjeena Subedi , Ryan Browne

Modeling data with multivariate count responses is a challenging problem due to the discrete nature of the responses. Existing methods for univariate count responses cannot be easily extended to the multivariate case since the dependency…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-15 Hao Wu , Xinwei Deng , Naren Ramakrishnan

Background: Since the invention of next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technologies, they have become a powerful tool to study the presence and quantity of RNA molecules in biological samples and have revolutionized transcriptomic…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-01 Wei Vivian Li , Jingyi Jessica Li

This paper studies the construction of p-values for nonparametric outlier detection, taking a multiple-testing perspective. The goal is to test whether new independent samples belong to the same distribution as a reference data set or are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-12 Stephen Bates , Emmanuel Candès , Lihua Lei , Yaniv Romano , Matteo Sesia

Novel deep learning architectures are increasingly being applied to biological data, including genetic sequences. These models, referred to as genomic language models (gLMs), have demonstrated impressive predictive and generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 James R. M. Black , Moritz S. Hanke , Aaron Maiwald , Tina Hernandez-Boussard , Oliver M. Crook , Jaspreet Pannu

This paper considers estimation for linear regression analysis with covariate measurement error arising from Poisson surrogates. We consider cases where covariates follow a conditional Poisson distribution, capturing non-Gaussian and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Aijun Yang , Mary Lesperance , Farouk S. Nathoo

Bai (2010) and Bai et al. (2012) proposed robust mixture regression method based on the M regression estimation. However, the M-estimators are robust against the outliers in response variables, but they are not robust against the outliers…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Fatma Zehra Doğru , Olcay Arslan

The integration of multi-omic data is pivotal for understanding complex diseases, but its high dimensionality and noise present significant challenges. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) offer a robust framework for analyzing large-scale…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-23 Heming Zhang , Di Huang , Yixin Chen , Fuhai Li

We revisit the outlier hypothesis testing framework of Li \emph{et al.} (TIT 2014) and derive fundamental limits for the optimal test. In outlier hypothesis testing, one is given multiple observed sequences, where most sequences are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Lin Zhou , Yun Wei , Alfred Hero

Gaussian process (GP) is a Bayesian model which provides several advantages for regression tasks in machine learning such as reliable quantitation of uncertainty and improved interpretability. Their adoption has been precluded by their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jonathan Parkinson , Wei Wang

High-dimensional linear and nonlinear models have been extensively used to identify associations between response and explanatory variables. The variable selection problem is commonly of interest in the presence of massive and complex data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-10 Vitara Pungpapong , Min Zhang , Dabao Zhang

Probabilistic models analyze data by relying on a set of assumptions. Data that exhibit deviations from these assumptions can undermine inference and prediction quality. Robust models offer protection against mismatch between a model's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Yixin Wang , Alp Kucukelbir , David M. Blei

Reliable confidence estimation is essential for enhancing the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs), especially in high-stakes scenarios. Despite its importance, accurately estimating confidence in LLM responses remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yukun Li , Sijia Wang , Lifu Huang , Li-Ping Liu

As gene expression measurement technology is shifting from microarrays to sequencing, the statistical tools available for their analysis must be adapted since RNA-seq data are measured as counts. Recently, it has been proposed to tackle the…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-10 Denis Agniel , Boris P Hejblum

We consider the segmentation problem of Poisson and negative binomial (i.e. overdispersed Poisson) rate distributions. In segmentation, an important issue remains the choice of the number of segments. To this end, we propose a penalized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Alice Cleynen , Emilie Lebarbier

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 interdependence between nodes in graphs is key to improve class predictions on nodes and utilized in approaches like Label Propagation (LP) or in Graph Neural Networks (GNN). Nonetheless, uncertainty estimation for non-independent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Maximilian Stadler , Bertrand Charpentier , Simon Geisler , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

In regression analysis of counts, a lack of simple and efficient algorithms for posterior computation has made Bayesian approaches appear unattractive and thus underdeveloped. We propose a lognormal and gamma mixed negative binomial (NB)…

Applications · Statistics 2012-07-03 Mingyuan Zhou , Lingbo Li , David Dunson , Lawrence Carin

This work establishes regularity conditions for consistency and asymptotic normality of the multiple parameter maximum likelihood estimator(MLE) from censored data, where the censoring mechanism is in the form of $1$-bit measurements. The…

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