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We construct examples of contingency tables on $n$ binary random variables where the gap between the linear programming lower/upper bound and the true integer lower/upper bounds on cell entries is exponentially large. These examples provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Seth Sullivant

Bayesian statistics emphasizes the importance of prior distributions, yet finding an appropriate one is practically challenging. When multiple sample results are taken regarding the frequency of the same event, these samples may be…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-27 Yu-Fu Shen

It is well known that the classical single linkage algorithm usually fails to identify clusters in the presence of outliers. In this paper, we propose a new version of this algorithm, and we study its mathematical performances. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Nicolas Klutchnikoff , Audrey Poterie , Laurent Rouviere

Epidemiologic and medical studies often rely on evaluators to obtain measurements of exposures or outcomes for study participants, and valid estimates of associations depends on the quality of data. Even though statistical methods have been…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-03 Yujie Wu , Sharon Curhan , Bernard Rosner , Gary Curhan , Molin Wang

Clustering, or unsupervised classification, is a task often plagued by outliers. Yet there is a paucity of work on handling outliers in clustering. Outlier identification algorithms tend to fall into three broad categories: outlier…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-31 Katharine M. Clark , Paul D. McNicholas

The study of networks has emerged in diverse disciplines as a means of analyzing complex relationship data. Beyond graph analysis tasks like graph query processing, link analysis, influence propagation, there has recently been some work in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Supriya Pandhre , Manish Gupta , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

This paper proposes an adaptive penalized weighted mean regression for outlier detection of high-dimensional data. In comparison to existing approaches based on the mean shift model, the proposed estimators demonstrate robustness against…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Jiaqi Li , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang , Wei Tu

Classical discriminant analysis (DA) is based on the mean and empirical covariance matrix of each class, both of which are sensitive to outliers in the data. In the past the focus was on casewise outliers, that is, datapoints that lie far…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Can Hakan Dagidir , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) to detect samples with large expected errors (outliers) is applied to reactive molecular potential energy surfaces (PESs). Three methods - Ensembles, Deep Evidential Regression (DER), and Gaussian Mixture…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar , Silvan Käser , Markus Meuwly

Anomaly detection aims at identifying data points that show systematic deviations from the majority of data in an unlabeled dataset. A common assumption is that clean training data (free of anomalies) is available, which is often violated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chen Qiu , Aodong Li , Marius Kloft , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

This paper considers the problem of outlier detection in functional data analysis focusing particularly on the more difficult case of shape outliers. We present an inductive conformal anomaly detection method based on elastic functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-11 Jason Adams , Brandon Berman , Joshua Michalenko , J. Derek Tucker

This paper considers the problem of recovering signals modeled by generative models from linear measurements contaminated with sparse outliers. We propose an outlier detection approach for reconstructing the ground-truth signals modeled by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Jirong Yi , Jingchao Gao , Tianming Wang , Xiaodong Wu , Weiyu Xu

In recent years the machine learning techniques have shown a great potential in various problems from a multitude of disciplines, including materials design and drug discovery. The high computational speed on the one hand and the accuracy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Konstantin Gubaev , Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Alexander V. Shapeev

This article introduces trimmed estimators for the mean and covariance function of general functional data. The estimators are based on a new measure of outlyingness or data depth that is well defined on any metric space, although this…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-12-03 Daniel Gervini

Revenue management strongly relies on accurate forecasts. Thus, when extraordinary events cause outlier demand, revenue management systems need to recognise this and adapt both forecast and controls. Many passenger transport service…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-10 Nicola Rennie , Catherine Cleophas , Adam M. Sykulski , Florian Dost

The problem of outlier detection is extremely challenging in many domains such as text, in which the attribute values are typically non-negative, and most values are zero. In such cases, it often becomes difficult to separate the outliers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Ramakrishnan Kannan , Hyenkyun Woo , Charu C. Aggarwal , Haesun Park

This paper is based on a previous publication [29]. Our work extends exception mining and outlier detection to the case of object-relational data. Object-relational data represent a complex heterogeneous network [12], which comprises…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Fatemeh Riahi , Oliver Schulte

Identifying complex phenotypes from high-dimensional biological data is challenging due to the intricate interdependencies among different physiological indicators. Traditional approaches often focus on detecting outliers in single…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-24 Yafei Shen , Tao Zhang , Zhiwei Liu , Kalliopi Kostelidou , Ying Xu , Ling Yang

We consider the problem of transfer learning in outlier detection where target abnormal data is rare. While transfer learning has been considered extensively in traditional balanced classification, the problem of transfer in outlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Mohammadreza M. Kalan , Eitan J. Neugut , Samory Kpotufe

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for analyzing multivariate data. Here the focus is on dimension reduction to the principal subspace, characterized by its projection matrix. The classical principal subspace can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw