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Under the Neyman causal model, it is well-known that OLS with treatment-by-covariate interactions cannot harm asymptotic precision of estimated treatment effects in completely randomized experiments. But do such guarantees extend to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Joel A. Middleton

A new notion of typicality for arbitrary probability measures on standard Borel spaces is proposed, which encompasses the classical notions of weak and strong typicality as special cases. Useful lemmas about strong typical sets, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Junekey Jeon

A mode, or `most likely point', for a probability measure $\mu$ can be defined in various ways via the asymptotic behaviour of the $\mu$-mass of balls as their radius tends to zero. Such points are of intrinsic interest in the local theory…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Ilja Klebanov , Hefin Lambley , T. J. Sullivan

Some classical uncertainty quantification problems require the estimation of multiple expectations. Estimating all of them accurately is crucial and can have a major impact on the analysis to perform, and standard existing Monte Carlo…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-02 Julien Demange-Chryst , François Bachoc , Jérôme Morio

We consider the problem of detecting a rectangle of activation in a grid of sensors in d-dimensions with noisy measurements. This has applications to massive surveillance projects and anomaly detection in large datasets in which one detects…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-26 James Sharpnack , Ery Arias-Castro

Let $G$ be a sofic group, and let $\Sigma = (\sigma_n)_{n\geq 1}$ be a sofic approximation to it. For a probability-preserving $G$-system, a variant of the sofic entropy relative to $\Sigma$ has recently been defined in terms of sequences…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Tim Austin

Sensitivity analysis for the unconfoundedness assumption is crucial in observational studies. For this purpose, the marginal sensitivity model (MSM) gained popularity recently due to its good interpretability and mathematical properties.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-27 Yao Zhang , Qingyuan Zhao

The hierarchically orthogonal functional decomposition of any measurable function f of a random vector X=(X_1,...,X_p) consists in decomposing f(X) into a sum of increasing dimension functions depending only on a subvector of X. Even when…

Applications · Statistics 2014-05-22 Gaelle Chastaing , Clémentine Prieur , Fabrice Gamboa

We develop an asymptotic theory of adversarial estimators ('A-estimators'). They generalize maximum-likelihood-type estimators ('M-estimators') as their average objective is maximized by some parameters and minimized by others. This class…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-06-20 Jonas Metzger

We introduce sparse versions of function spaces that are relevant to characterize the solutions of Euler equations without concentration. The standard Sobolev space $H^{-1}$ is given a sparse structure that allows to measure the degree of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Óscar Domínguez , Mario Milman

We introduce and investigate classes of normed or quasinormed distribution spaces of generalized smoothness that can be obtained by various interpolation methods applied to classical Sobolev, Nikolskii-Besov, and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. An…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Anna Anop , Aleksandr Murach

Variance-based global sensitivity analysis (GSA) can provide a wealth of information when applied to complex models. A well-known Achilles' heel of this approach is its computational cost which often renders it unfeasible in practice. An…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 John Darges , Alen Alexanderian , Pierre Gremaud

Generalized likelihoods are commonly used to obtain consistent estimators with attractive computational and robustness properties. Formally, any generalized likelihood can be used to define a generalized posterior distribution, but an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Jeffrey W. Miller

We give a geometrical set up for the semiclassical approximation to euclidean field theories having families of minima (instantons) parametrized by suitable moduli spaces ${\cal M}$. The standard examples are of course Yang-Mills theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 M. Nolasco , C. Reina

The simplest and most widely applied method for guaranteeing differential privacy is to add instance-independent noise to a statistic of interest that is scaled to its global sensitivity. However, global sensitivity is a worst-case notion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke

Sobol' sensitivity index estimators for stochastic models are functions of nested Monte Carlo estimators, which are estimators built from two nested Monte Carlo loops. The outer loop explores the input space and, for each of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Henri Mermoz Kouye , Gildas Mazo

We present a novel graph embedding space (i.e., a set of measures on graphs) for performing statistical analyses of networks. Key improvements over existing approaches include discovery of "motif-hubs" (multiple overlapping significant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Etay Ziv , Robin Koytcheff , Manuel Middendorf , Chris Wiggins

In this paper, we present perturbed law-based sensitivity indices and how to adapt them for quantile-oriented sensitivity analysis. We exhibit a simple way to compute these indices in practice using an importance sampling estimator for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Roman Sueur , Bertrand Iooss , Thibault Delage

The survey covers several topics related to the asymptotic structure of various combinatorial and analytic objects such as the path spaces in graded graphs (Bratteli diagrams), invariant measures with respect to countable groups, etc. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-12 A. Vershik

ANOVA decomposition of function with random input variables provides ANOVA functionals (AFs), which contain information about the contributions of the input variables on the output variable(s). By embedding AFs into an appropriate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Matieyendou Lamboni