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For the Narain-Horvitz-Thompson estimator to have usual asymptotic properties such as consistency, some conditions on the sampling design and on the variable of interest are needed. Cardot et al. (2010) give some sufficient conditions for…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-10 Guillaume Chauvet

This paper continues the author's previous study \cite{Kura20}, showing that several weak principles inspired by non-normal modal logic suffice to derive various refined forms of the second incompleteness theorem. Among the main results of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Taishi Kurahashi

This paper engages the question "Does the consistency of a set of axioms entail the existence of a model in which they are satisfied?" within the frame of the Frege-Hilbert controversy. The question is related historically to the…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Walter Dean

This paper provides theoretical consistency results for compressed modes. We prove that as L1 regularization term in certain non-convex variational optimization problems vanishes, the solutions of the optimization problem and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 Farzin Barekat

A Bernstein-von Mises theorem is derived for general semiparametric functionals. The result is applied to a variety of semiparametric problems in i.i.d. and non-i.i.d. situations. In particular, new tools are developed to handle…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Ismaël Castillo , Judith Rousseau

We study a novel class of affine invariant and consistent tests for multivariate normality. The tests are based on a characterization of the standard $d$-variate normal distribution by means of the unique solution of an initial value…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Bruno Ebner , Norbert Henze , David Strieder

We revisit a fundamental question in hypothesis testing: given two sets of probability measures $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{Q}$, when does a nontrivial (i.e. strictly unbiased) test for $\mathcal{P}$ against $\mathcal{Q}$ exist? Le Cam…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Martin Larsson , Johannes Ruf , Aaditya Ramdas

We establish existence of Stein kernels for probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ satisfying a Poincar\'e inequality, and obtain bounds on the Stein discrepancy of such measures. Applications to quantitative central limit theorems are…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Thomas A. Courtade , Max Fathi , Ashwin Pananjady

Kernel-based tests provide a simple yet effective framework that use the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces to design non-parametric testing procedures. In this paper we propose new theoretical tools that can be used to study the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Tamara Fernández , Nicolás Rivera

In much discussed work Artemov has recently shown that, for $\mathrm{PA}$, the consistency schema admits a form of uniform verification via selector proofs, despite the unprovability of the corresponding uniform consistency sentence…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Harald Grobner

Consider the planar linear switched system $\dot x(t)=u(t)Ax(t)+(1-u(t))Bx(t),$ where $A$ and $B$ are two $2\times2$ real matrices, $x \in \R^2$, and $u(.):[0,\infty[\to\{0,1\}$ is a measurable function. In this paper we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Moussa Balde , Ugo Boscain

A result of Bangert states that the stable norm associated to any Riemannian metric on the $2$-torus $T^2$ is strictly convex. We demonstrate that the space of stable norms associated to metrics on $T^2$ forms a proper dense subset of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-08 Eran Makover , Hugo Parlier , Craig J. Sutton

It is well-known that density estimation on the unit interval is asymptotically equivalent to a Gaussian white noise experiment, provided the densities have H\"older smoothness larger than $1/2$ and are uniformly bounded away from zero. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Kolyan Ray , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We give a comprehensive theoretical characterization of a nonparametric estimator for the $L_2^2$ divergence between two continuous distributions. We first bound the rate of convergence of our estimator, showing that it is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-31 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabas Poczos , Larry Wasserman

Nonparametric two sample testing deals with the question of consistently deciding if two distributions are different, given samples from both, without making any parametric assumptions about the form of the distributions. The current…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Aaditya Ramdas , Sashank J. Reddi , Barnabas Poczos , Aarti Singh , Larry Wasserman

Common approaches to inference for structural and reduced-form parameters in empirical economic analysis are based on the consistency and the root-n asymptotic normality of the GMM and M estimators. The canonical consistency (respectively,…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-09-04 Yuya Sasaki , Yulong Wang

We consider nonparametric testing in a non-asymptotic framework. Our statistical guarantees are exact in the sense that Type I and II errors are controlled for any finite sample size. Meanwhile, one proposed test is shown to achieve minimax…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Yun Yang , Zuofeng Shang , Guang Cheng

In this paper, we are concerned with solutions to the following nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with combined inhomogeneous nonlinearities, $$ -\Delta u + \lambda u= \mu |x|^{-b}|u|^{q-2} u + |x|^{-b}|u|^{p-2} u \quad \mbox{in} \,\, \R^N,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Tianxiang Gou

Conformally invariant quantum field theories develop trace anomalies when defined on curved backgrounds. We study again the problem of identifying all possible trace anomalies in d=6 by studying the consistency conditions to derive their 10…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bastianelli , G. Cuoghi , L. Nocetti

We consider the problem of finding, for a given quadratic measure of non-uniformity of a set of $N$ points (such as $L_2$ star-discrepancy or diaphony), the asymptotic distribution of this discrepancy for truly random points in the limit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andre van Hameren , Ronald Kleiss , Jiri Hoogland