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The problem of testing hypothesis that a density function has no more than $\mu$ derivatives versus it has more than $\mu$ derivatives is considered. For a solution, the $L^2$ norms of wavelet orthogonal projections on some orthogonal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Bogdan Ćmiel , Karol Dziedziul , Barbara Wolnik

Cognitive diagnosis models have been popularly used in fields such as education, psychology, and social sciences. While parametric likelihood estimation is a prevailing method for fitting cognitive diagnosis models, nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Chengyu Cui , Yanlong Liu , Gongjun Xu

The aim of this paper is to present an extension of the well-known as-ymptotic equivalence between density estimation experiments and a Gaussian white noise model. Our extension consists in enlarging the nonparametric class of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Ester Mariucci

The notion of (non)contextuality pertains to sets of properties measured one subset (context) at a time. We extend this notion to include so-called inconsistently connected systems, in which the measurements of a given property in different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Janne V. Kujala , Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov , Jan-Åke Larsson

We characterize the asymptotic performance of nonparametric goodness of fit testing. The exponential decay rate of the type-II error probability is used as the asymptotic performance metric, and a test is optimal if it achieves the maximum…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-19 Shengyu Zhu , Biao Chen , Pengfei Yang , Zhitang Chen

Given the significance of physical measures in understanding the complexity of dynamical systems as well as the noisy nature of real-world systems, investigating the stability of physical measures under noise perturbations is undoubtedly a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Weiwei Qi , Zhongwei Shen , Yingfei Yi

We propose a new testing procedure for detecting localized departures from monotonicity of a signal embedded in white noise. In fact, we perform simultaneously several tests that aim at detecting departures from concavity for the integrated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Nathalie Akakpo , Fadoua Balabdaoui , Cécile Durot

Illumination variation remains a central challenge in object detection and recognition. Existing analyses of illumination variation typically pertain to convex, Lambertian objects, and guarantee quality of approximation in an average case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Yuqian Zhang , Cun Mu , Han-wen Kuo , John Wright

Correlation analysis is a fundamental step in uncovering meaningful insights from complex datasets. In this paper, we study the problem of detecting correlations between two random graphs following the Gaussian Wigner model with unlabeled…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for contraction and incremental stability of dynamical systems with respect to non-Euclidean norms. First, we introduce weak pairings as a framework to study contractivity with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Alexander Davydov , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we study the polynomial stability of analytical solution and convergence of the semi-implicit Euler method for non-linear stochastic pantograph differential equations. Firstly, the sufficient conditions for solutions to grow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-03 M. H. Song , Y. L. Lu , M. Z. Liu

In our adjacent work, we developed a spectral comparison principle for compound cocycles generated by delay equations. It allows to derive frequency inequalities for the uniform exponential stability of such cocycles by means of their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Mikhail Anikushin , Andrey Romanov

We show quantitative stability results for the geometric "cells" arising in semi-discrete optimal transport problems. Our results show two types of stability, the first is stability of the associated Laguerre cells in measure, without any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Mohit Bansil , Jun Kitagawa

New problems arise when the standard theory of joint detection and estimation is applied to a set of signals drawn from a continuous family; decision thresholds must be determined as a function of the continuous parameter x characterizing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-17 D. Michael Milder , Robert G. Lindgren , Morris M. Berman

We study Bayes procedures for the problem of nonparametric drift estimation for one-dimensional, ergodic diffusion models from discrete-time, low-frequency data. We give conditions for posterior consistency and verify these conditions for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Frank van der Meulen , Harry van Zanten

A stability version of the Blaschke-Santal\'o inequality and the affine isoperimetric inequality for convex bodies of dimension n>2 is proved. The first step is the reduction to the case when the convex body is o-symmetric and has axial…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Károly J. Böröczky

We present new families of goodness-of-fit tests of uniformity on a full-dimensional set $W\subset\R^d$ based on statistics related to edge lengths of random geometric graphs. Asymptotic normality of these statistics is proven under the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Bruno Ebner , Franz Nestmann , Matthias Schulte

Let $f \in L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and suppose we are interested in computing its average at a fixed scale. This is easy: we pick the density $u_{}$ of a probability distribution with mean 0 and some moment at the desired scale and compute the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Stefan Steinerberger

We consider the sequential composite binary hypothesis testing problem in which one of the hypotheses is governed by a single distribution while the other is governed by a family of distributions whose parameters belong to a known set…

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