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Scenario reduction techniques are widely applied for solving sophisticated dynamic and stochastic programs, especially in energy and power systems, but also used in probabilistic forecasting, clustering and estimating generative adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Florian Ziel

Several works have been undertaken in the context of proportional reversed hazard rate (PRHR) since last few decades. But any specific statistical methodology for the PRHR hypothesis is absent in the literature. In this paper, a two-sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-24 Ruhul Ali Khan

The Gini correlation plays an important role in measuring dependence of random variables with heavy tailed distributions, whose properties are a mixture of Pearson's and Spearman's correlations. Due to the structure of this dependence…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-05 Yongli Sang , Xin Dang , Yichuan Zhao

In this paper, we use the empirical likelihood method to construct the confidence regions for the difference between the parameters of a two-phases nonlinear model with random design. We show that the empirical likelihood ratio has an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Zahraa Salloum

In this paper, in order to test whether changes have occurred in a nonlinear parametric regression, we propose a nonparametric method based on the empirical likelihood. Firstly, we test the null hypothesis of no-change against the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Gabriela Ciuperca , Zahraa Salloum

Empirical likelihood approach is one of non-parametric statistical methods, which is applied to the hypothesis testing or construction of confidence regions for pivotal unknown quantities. This method has been applied to the case of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Fumiya Akashi , Yan Liu , Masanobu Taniguchi

In the present article, we propose jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) ratio test for testing the independence of time to failure and cause of failure in competing risks data. We use U-statistic theory to derive the JEL ratio test. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-19 Sreelakshmy N. , Sreedevi E. P

In many applications, parameters of interest are estimated by solving some non-smooth estimating equations with $U$-statistic structure. Jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) approach can solve this problem efficiently by reducing the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-18 Yongli Sang , Xin Dang , Yichuan Zhao

Motivated by applications to goodness of fit testing, the empirical likelihood approach is generalized to allow for the number of constraints to grow with the sample size and for the constraints to use estimated criteria functions. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Hanxiang Peng , Anton Schick

Heavy-tailed distributions, such as the Cauchy distribution, are acknowledged for providing more accurate models for financial returns, as the normal distribution is deemed insufficient for capturing the significant fluctuations observed in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Ganesh Vishnu Avhad , Ananya Lahiri , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

We introduce a novel approach called the Bayesian Jackknife empirical likelihood method for analyzing survey data obtained from various unequal probability sampling designs. This method is particularly applicable to parameters described by…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-14 Mengdong Shang , Xia Chen

The energy distance is used to test distributional equality, and as a loss function in machine learning. While $D^2(X, Y)=0$ only when $X\sim Y$, the sensitivity to different moments is of practical importance. This work considers $D^2(X,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-28 Ian Langmore

For linear models with spatial errors, the empirical likelihood ratio statistics are constructed for the parameters of the models. It is shown that the limiting distributions of the empirical likelihood ratio statistics are chi-squared…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-28 Yongsong Qin

In this paper we apply divergence measures to empirical likelihood applied to logistic regression models. We define a family of empirical test statistics based on divergence measures, called empirical phi-divergence test statistics,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-06 A. Felipe , P. Garcia-Segador , N. Martin , P. Miranda , L. Pardo

In this paper we use a well know method in statistics, the $\delta$-method, to provide an asymptotic distribution for the Mutual Information, and construct and independence test based on it. Interesting connections are found with the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-26 Marius Marinescu , Costel Balcau

Distance correlation has gained much recent attention in the data science community: the sample statistic is straightforward to compute and asymptotically equals zero if and only if independence, making it an ideal choice to discover any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Cencheng Shen , Sambit Panda , Joshua T. Vogelstein

In this article a new family of tests is proposed for the comparison problem of the equality of distribution of two-sample under right censoring scheme. The tests are based on energy distance and kernels mean embedding, are calibrated by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Marcos Matabuena

We develop a jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) framework for inference on parameters defined through multivariate three-sample U-statistic. From three independent multivariate samples, we construct JEL ratio statistic based on suitable…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-03 Naresh Garg , Litty Mathew , Isha Dewan , Sudheesh Kumar Kattumannil

We study the empirical likelihood approach to construct confidence intervals for the optimal value and the optimality gap of a given solution, henceforth quantify the statistical uncertainty of sample average approximation, for optimization…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-25 Henry Lam , Enlu Zhou

The energy distance and energy scores became important tools in multivariate statistics and multivariate probabilistic forecasting in recent years. They are both based on the expected distance of two independent samples. In this paper we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Carole Bernard , Alfred Müller