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In this paper, we consider an unknown functional estimation problem in a general nonparametric regression model with the feature of having both multiplicative and additive noise.We propose two new wavelet estimators in this general context.…

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We noisily observe solutions of an ordinary differential equation $\dot u = f(u)$ at given times, where $u$ lives in a $d$-dimensional state space. The model function $f$ is unknown and belongs to a H\"older-type smoothness class with…

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Let $L$ be a linear differential operator acting on functions defined over an open set $\mathcal{D}\subset \mathbb{R}^d$. In this article, we characterize the measurable second order random fields $U = (U(x))_{x\in\mathcal{D}}$ whose sample…

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This work deals with the ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing a function $f$ given implicitly as the solution of $g = Af$, where $A$ is a compact linear operator with unknown singular values and known eigenfunctions. We observe the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Jan Johannes , Maik Schwarz

Imposition of a lasso penalty shrinks parameter estimates toward zero and performs continuous model selection. Lasso penalized regression is capable of handling linear regression problems where the number of predictors far exceeds the…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Tong Tong Wu , Kenneth Lange

We consider the estimation of the slope function in functional linear regression, where scalar responses are modeled in dependence of random functions. Cardot and Johannes [J. Multivariate Anal. 101 (2010) 395-408] have shown that a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Fabienne Comte , Jan Johannes

A l1-norm penalized orthogonal forward regression (l1-POFR) algorithm is proposed based on the concept of leaveone- out mean square error (LOOMSE). Firstly, a new l1-norm penalized cost function is defined in the constructed orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Xia Hong , Sheng Chen , Yi Guo , Junbin Gao

The coefficients in a second order parabolic linear stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) are estimated from multiple spatially localised measurements. Assuming that the spatial resolution tends to zero and the number of…

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In this paper we introduce a new methodology to determine an optimal coefficient of penalized functional regression. We assume the dependent, independent variables and the regression coefficients are functions of time and error dynamics…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-07 Paramahansa Pramanik , Alan M. Polansky

We analyse the difference in convergence mode using exact versus penalised boundary values for the residual minimisation of PDEs with neural network type ansatz functions, as is commonly done in the context of physics informed neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Johannes Müller , Marius Zeinhofer

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of penalized spline estimates of derivatives. In particular, we show that simply differentiating the penalized spline estimator of the mean regression function itself to estimate the corresponding…

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This paper gives a comprehensive treatment of the convergence rates of penalized spline estimators for simultaneously estimating several leading principal component functions, when the functional data is sparsely observed. The penalized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Shiyuan He , Jianhua Z. Huang , Kejun He

Many least squares problems involve affine equality and inequality constraints. Although there are variety of methods for solving such problems, most statisticians find constrained estimation challenging. The current paper proposes a new…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-22 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

We develop nonparametric regression methods for the case when the true regression function is not necessarily smooth. More specifically, our approach is using the fractional Laplacian and is designed to handle the case when the true…

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We consider the problem of inference for local parameters of a convex regression function $f_0: [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ based on observations from a standard nonparametric regression model, using the convex least squares estimator (LSE)…

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We consider the problem of estimation of a shift parameter of an unknown symmetric function in Gaussian white noise. We introduce a notion of semiparametric second-order efficiency and propose estimators that are semiparametrically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 A. S. Dalalyan , G. K. Golubev , A. B. Tsybakov

We consider a convex optimization problem with many linear inequality constraints. To deal with a large number of constraints, we provide a penalty reformulation of the problem, where the penalty is a variant of the one-sided Huber loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Angelia Nedich , Tatiana Tatarenko

Function-on-function linear regression is important for understanding the relationship between the response and the predictor that are both functions. In this article, we propose a reproducing kernel Hilbert space approach to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Holger Dette , Jiajun Tang

We study a functional linear regression model that deals with functional responses and allows for both functional covariates and high-dimensional vector covariates. The proposed model is flexible and nests several functional regression…

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