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Testing to see whether a given data set comes from some specified distribution is among the oldest types of problems in Statistics. Many such tests have been developed and their performance studied. The general result has been that while a…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-07 Wolfgang Rolke

A novel goodness-of-fit strategy is introduced for testing models of angular power spectra with unknown parameters. Using this strategy, it is possible to assess the validity of such models without specifying the distribution of the angular…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-01-30 Sara Algeri , Xiangyu Zhang , Erik Floden , Hongru Zhao , Galin L. Jones , Vuk Mandic , Jesse Miller

We propose two nonparametric statistical tests of goodness of fit for conditional distributions: given a conditional probability density function $p(y|x)$ and a joint sample, decide whether the sample is drawn from $p(y|x)r_x(x)$ for some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Wittawat Jitkrittum , Heishiro Kanagawa , Bernhard Schölkopf

Most signal processing and statistical applications heavily rely on specific data distribution models. The Gaussian distributions, although being the most common choice, are inadequate in most real world scenarios as they fail to account…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Ilya Soloveychik

Parametric max-stable processes are increasingly used to model spatial extremes. Starting from the fact that the dependence structure of a max-stable process is completely characterized by an extreme-value copula, a class of goodness-of-fit…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-27 Ivan Kojadinovic , Hongwei Shang , Jun Yan

There exist a number of tests for assessing the nonparametric heteroscedastic location-scale assumption. Here we consider a goodness-of-fit test for the more general hypothesis of the validity of this model under a parametric functional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Marie Hušková , Simos G. Meintanis , Charl Pretorius

Big data comes in various ways, types, shapes, forms and sizes. Indeed, almost all areas of science, technology, medicine, public health, economics, business, linguistics and social science are bombarded by ever increasing flows of data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-06 Ernest Fokoue

This paper proposes a novel two-step strategy for testing the goodness-of-fit of parametric regression models in ultra-high dimensional sparse settings, where the predictor dimension far exceeds the sample size. This regime usually renders…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Falong Tan , Jie Liu , Heng Peng , Lixing Zhu

A classic inferential statistical problem is the goodness-of-fit (GOF) test. Such a test can be challenging when the hypothesized parametric model has an intractable likelihood and its distributional form is not available. Bayesian methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-13 Forough Fazeli-Asl , Michael Minyi Zhang , Lizhen Lin

We propose a class of goodness-of-fit tests for complete spatial randomness (CSR). In contrast to standard tests, our procedure utilizes a transformation of the data to a binary image, which is then characterized by geometric functionals.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Bruno Ebner , Norbert Henze , Michael A. Klatt , Klaus Mecke

The two key issues of modern Bayesian statistics are: (i) establishing principled approach for distilling statistical prior that is consistent with the given data from an initial believable scientific prior; and (ii) development of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-18 Subhadeep , Mukhopadhyay , Douglas Fletcher

Many objects studied in astronomy follow a power law distribution function, for example the masses of stars or star clusters. A still used method by which such data is analysed is to generate a histogram and fit a straight line to it. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas Maschberger , Pavel Kroupa

Goodness-of-fit (GoF) testing is ubiquitous in statistics, with direct ties to model selection, confidence interval construction, conditional independence testing, and multiple testing, just to name a few applications. While testing the GoF…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-16 Rina Foygel Barber , Lucas Janson

We describe a test statistic for unbinned goodness-of-fit of data in one dimension. The statistic is based on the two-dimensional Random Walk. The rejection power of this test is explored both for simple and compound hypotheses and, for the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-11-18 K. Kinoshita

This paper introduces chi-square goodness-of-fit tests to check for conditional distribution model specification. The data is cross-classified according to the Rosenblatt transform of the dependent variable and the explanatory variables,…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-09-25 Miguel A. Delgado , Julius Vainora

Disaggregated evaluation is a central task in AI fairness assessment, where the goal is to measure an AI system's performance across different subgroups defined by combinations of demographic or other sensitive attributes. The standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Christine Herlihy , Kimberly Truong , Alexandra Chouldechova , Miroslav Dudik

While there exists several inferential methods for analyzing functional data in factorial designs, there is a lack of statistical tests that are valid (i) in general designs, (ii) under non-restrictive assumptions on the data generating…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-28 Merle Munko , Marc Ditzhaus , Markus Pauly , Łukasz Smaga , Jin-Ting Zhang

Recently there have been many research efforts in developing generative models for self-exciting point processes, partly due to their broad applicability for real-world applications. However, rarely can we quantify how well the generative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Song Wei , Shixiang Zhu , Minghe Zhang , Yao Xie

We define data transformations that leave certain classes of distributions invariant, while acting in a specific manner upon the parameters of the said distributions. It is shown that under such transformations the maximum likelihood…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Muneya Matsui , Simos Meintanis

A general and relatively simple method for construction of multivariate goodness-of-fit tests is introduced. The proposed test is applied to elliptical distributions. The method is based on a characterization of probability distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-22 Feifei Chen , M. Dolores Jiménez-Gamero , Simos Meintanis , Lixing Zhu