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We introduce a class of paired binary matrices called admixed arrays, which arise in analyses of large-scale genetic data and can be viewed as weighted edge colorings of complete bipartite graphs. This combinatorial structure gives rise to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Alan J. Aw

Probabilistic models often have parameters that can be translated, scaled, permuted, or otherwise transformed without changing the model. These symmetries can lead to strong correlation and multimodality in the posterior distribution over…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-20 Robert Nishihara , Thomas Minka , Daniel Tarlow

For measuring the strength of visually-observed subpopulation differences, the Population Difference Criterion is proposed to assess the statistical significance of visually observed subpopulation differences. It addresses the following…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-21 Xi Yang , Jan Hannig , Katherine A. Hoadley , Iain Carmichael , J. S. Marron

The parameters of a linear compartment model are usually estimated from experimental input-output data. A problem arises when infinitely many parameter values can yield the same result; such a model is called unidentifiable. In this case,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Jasmijn A. Baaijens , Jan Draisma

We establish a large deviation principle for the empirical spectral measure of a sample covariance matrix with sub-Gaussian entries, which extends Bordenave and Caputo's result for Wigner matrices having the same type of entries [7]. To…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Benjamin Groux

In the problem of matrix compressed sensing we aim to recover a low-rank matrix from few of its element-wise linear projections. In this contribution we analyze the asymptotic performance of a Bayes-optimal inference procedure for a model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Christophe Schülke , Philip Schniter , Lenka Zdeborová

This paper develops a method to carry out the large-$N$ asymptotic analysis of a class of $N$-dimensional integrals arising in the context of the so-called quantum separation of variables method. We push further ideas developed in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 G. Borot , A. Guionnet , K. K. Kozlowski

We consider the problem of detecting a rectangle of activation in a grid of sensors in d-dimensions with noisy measurements. This has applications to massive surveillance projects and anomaly detection in large datasets in which one detects…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-26 James Sharpnack , Ery Arias-Castro

The problem of approximating a matrix by a low-rank one has been extensively studied. This problem assumes, however, that the whole matrix has a low-rank structure. This assumption is often false for real-world matrices. We consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Martino Ciaperoni , Aristides Gionis , Heikki Mannila

In group sequential designs, where several data looks are conducted for early stopping, we generally assume the vector of test statistics from the sequential analyses follows (at least approximately or asymptotially) a multivariate normal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Long-Hao Xu , Tobias Mütze , Frank Konietschke , Tim Friede

Several statistics-based detectors, based on unimodal matrix models, for determining the number of sources in a field are designed. A new variance ratio statistic is proposed, and its asymptotic distribution is analyzed. The variance ratio…

Applications · Statistics 2021-06-09 Rui Zhang , Junting Chen , Yao Xie , Alexander Shapiro , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we consider the problem of determining the presence of a given signal in a high-dimensional observation with unknown covariance matrix by using an adaptive matched filter. Traditionally such filters are formed from the sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Benjamin D. Robinson , Robert Malinas , Alfred O. Hero

Whereas most dimensionality reduction techniques (e.g. PCA, ICA, NMF) for multivariate data essentially rely on linear algebra to a certain extent, summarizing ranking data, viewed as realizations of a random permutation $\Sigma$ on a set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-02 Mastane Achab , Anna Korba , Stephan Clémençon

We observe $n$ independent $p-$dimensional Gaussian vectors with missing coordinates, that is each value (which is assumed standardized) is observed with probability $a>0$. We investigate the problem of minimax nonparametric testing that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Cristina Butucea , Rania Zgheib

We address the detection of a low rank $n\times n$deterministic matrix $\mathbf{X}_{0}$ from the noisy observation ${\bf X}_{0}+{\bf Z}$ when $n\to\infty$, where ${\bf Z}$ is a complex Gaussian random matrix with independent identically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-30 Antoine Chevreuil , Philippe Loubaton

Drmota and Stufler proved recently that the expected number of pattern occurrences of a given map is asymptotically linear when the number of edges goes to infinity. In this paper we improve their result by means of a different method. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Guan-Ru Yu

Permutation testing in linear models, where the number of nuisance coefficients is smaller than the sample size, is a well-studied topic. The common approach of such tests is to permute residuals after regressing on the nuisance covariates.…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-09 Jesse Hemerik , Magne Thoresen , Livio Finos

The problem of detecting changes in covariance for a single pair of features has been studied in some detail, but may be limited in importance or general applicability. In contrast, testing equality of covariance matrices of a {\it set} of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-12 Yi-Hui Zhou

Low rank inference on matrices is widely conducted by optimizing a cost function augmented with a penalty proportional to the nuclear norm $\Vert \cdot \Vert_*$. However, despite the assortment of computational methods for such problems,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-08 Simon Segert , Nathan Wycoff