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A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to estimate a function $f$ from possibly noisy observations of its point samples. The goal is to design a numerical algorithm to construct an approximation $\hat f$ to $f$ in a…

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We present a minimax optimal solution to the problem of estimating a compact, convex set from finitely many noisy measurements of its support function. The solution is based on appropriate regularizations of the least squares estimator.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-31 Adityanand Guntuboyina

Let $\mathbf{x}_j = \mathbf{\theta} + \mathbf{\epsilon}_j$, $j=1,\dots,n$ be i.i.d. copies of a Gaussian random vector $\mathbf{x}\sim\mathcal{N}(\mathbf{\theta},\mathbf{\Sigma})$ with unknown mean $\mathbf{\theta} \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Fan Zhou , Ping Li

We consider $L^2$-approximation on weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of functions depending on infinitely many variables. We focus on unrestricted linear information, admitting evaluations of arbitrary continuous linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Kumar Harsha , Michael Gnewuch , Marcin Wnuk

A kernel density estimator for data on the polysphere $\mathbb{S}^{d_1}\times\cdots\times\mathbb{S}^{d_r}$, with $r,d_1,\ldots,d_r\geq 1$, is presented in this paper. We derive the main asymptotic properties of the estimator, including mean…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-08 Eduardo García-Portugués , Andrea Meilán-Vila

We study a problem of estimation of smooth functionals of parameter $\theta $ of Gaussian shift model $$ X=\theta +\xi,\ \theta \in E, $$ where $E$ is a separable Banach space and $X$ is an observation of unknown vector $\theta$ in Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Vladimir Koltchinskii , Mayya Zhilova

We adress the problem of spherical deconvolution in a non parametric statistical framework, where both the signal and the operator kernel are subject to error measurements. After a preliminary treatment of the kernel, we apply a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-16 Thomas Vareschi

We study the non-parametric estimation of an unknown density f with support on R+ based on an i.i.d. sample with multiplicative measurement errors. The proposed fully-data driven procedure consists of the estimation of the Mellin transform…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Sergio Brenner Miguel

This article studies the recovery of graphons when they are convolution kernels on compact (symmetric) metric spaces. This case is of particular interest since it covers the situation where the probability of an edge depends only on some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Yohann De Castro , Claire Lacour , Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc

We consider the estimation of the value of a linear functional of the slope parameter in functional linear regression, where scalar responses are modeled in dependence of random functions. In Johannes and Schenk [2010] it has been shown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-14 Jan Johannes , Rudolf Schenk

We propose a non-parametric anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data. We first rank scores derived from nearest neighbor graphs on $n$-point nominal training data. We then train limited complexity models to imitate these scores…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-25 Jonathan Root , Venkatesh Saligrama , Jing Qian

We consider the problem of estimating the slope parameter in circular functional linear regression, where scalar responses Y1,...,Yn are modeled in dependence of 1-periodic, second order stationary random functions X1,...,Xn. We consider an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Fabienne Comte , Jan Johannes

We consider the problem of estimating the value l({\phi}) of a linear functional, where the structural function {\phi} models a nonparametric relationship in presence of instrumental variables. We propose a plug-in estimator which is based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Christoph Breunig , Jan Johannes

Let $\{(X_i,Y_i)\}_{i\in \{1,..., n\}}$ be an i.i.d. sample from the random design regression model $Y=f(X)+\epsilon$ with $(X,Y)\in [0,1]\times [-M,M]$. In dealing with such a model, adaptation is naturally to be intended in terms of…

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The adaptive non-harmonic (ANH) model is a powerful tool to compactly represent oscillating signals with time-varying amplitude and phase, and non-sinusoidal oscillating morphology. Given good estimators of instantaneous amplitude and phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Joaquin Ruiz , Marcelo A. Colominas

This work is intended as a contribution to a wavelet-based adaptive estimator of the memory parameter in the classical semi-parametric framework for Gaussian stationary processes. In particular we introduce and develop the choice of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-27 Jean-Marc Bardet , Hatem Bibi , Abdellatif Jouini

We study estimation of a multivariate function $f:\mathbf{R}^d\to\mathbf{R}$ when the observations are available from the function $Af$, where $A$ is a known linear operator. Both the Gaussian white noise model and density estimation are…

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Deconvolution is a statistical inverse problem to estimate the distribution of a random variable based on its noisy observations. Despite the extensive studies on the topic, deconvolution with unknown noise distribution remains as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song

We construct an adaptive asymptotically optimal in the classical norm of the space L(2) of square integrable functions non - parametrical multidimensional time defined signal regaining (adaptive filtration, noise canceller) on the…

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