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The goal of any estimation study is an interval estimation of a the parameter(s) of interest. These estimations are mostly expressed using empirical confidence intervals that are based on sample point estimates of the corresponding…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-03 Ilya Novikov

Block sparsity is an important parameter in many algorithms to successfully recover block sparse signals under the framework of compressive sensing. However, it is often unknown and needs to be estimated. Recently there emerges a few…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jianfeng Wang , Zhiyong Zhou , Jun Yu

We discuss a new method for setting limits on small signals in the presence of background noise. The method is based on a combination of a two dimensional confidence region and the large sample approximation to the likelihood ratio test…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Wolfgang A. Rolke , Angel M. Lopez

Objectives: Estimation of areas under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) and their differences is a key task in diagnostic studies. We aimed to derive, evaluate, and implement simple sample size formulas for such studies with a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-03 Di Shu , Guangyong Zou

Phase retrieval (PR) is a popular research topic in signal processing and machine learning. However, its performance degrades significantly when the measurements are corrupted by noise or outliers. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jun Fan , Ailing Yan , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

We consider a general regression model, without a scale parameter. Our aim is to construct a confidence interval for a scalar parameter of interest $\theta$ that utilizes the uncertain prior information that a distinct scalar parameter…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-17 Paul Kabaila , Nishika Ranathunga

The support recovery problem consists of determining a sparse subset of variables that is relevant in generating a set of observations. In this paper, we study the support recovery problem in the phase retrieval model consisting of noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lan V. Truong , Jonathan Scarlett

We study the problem of recovering the underlining sparse signals from clean or noisy phaseless measurements. Due to the sparse prior of signals, we adopt an L0regularized variational model to ensure only a small number of nonzero elements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Yuping Duan , Chunlin Wu , Zhi-Feng Pang , Huibin Chang

In this paper we first provide a method to compute confidence intervals for the center of a piecewise normal distribution given a sample from this distribution, under certain assumptions. We then extend this method to an asymptotic setting,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Shu Lu , Hongsheng Liu

This paper introduces a novel framework and corresponding methods for sampling and reconstruction of sparse signals in shift-invariant (SI) spaces. We reinterpret the random demodulator, a system that acquires sparse bandlimited signals, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Tin Vlašić , Damir Seršić

In typical high dimensional statistical inference problems, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests are performed for a low dimensional subset of model parameters under the assumption that the parameters of interest are unconstrained.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-19 Ming Yu , Varun Gupta , Mladen Kolar

This paper studies the inference of the regression coefficient matrix under multivariate response linear regressions in the presence of hidden variables. A novel procedure for constructing confidence intervals of entries of the coefficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-21 Xin Bing , Wei Cheng , Huijie Feng , Yang Ning

The construction of confidence intervals for the mean of a bounded random variable is a classical problem in statistics with numerous applications in machine learning and virtually all scientific fields. In particular, obtaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Václav Voráček , Francesco Orabona

Some elements of the theory and algorithmics corresponding to the computation of semilinear sparse models for discrete-time signals are presented. In this study, we will focus on approximately eventually periodic discrete-time signals, that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Fredy Vides

Suppose there are two unknown parameters, each parameter is the solution to an estimating equation, and the estimating equation of one parameter depends on the other parameter. The parameters can be jointly estimated by "stacking" their…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-13 Eli S. Kravitz , Raymond J. Carroll , David Ruppert

Due to excessive need for faster propagations of signals and necessity to reduce number of measurements and rapidly increase efficiency, new sensing theories have been proposed. Conventional sampling approaches that follow Shannon-Nyquist…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Milan Resetar , Gojko Ratkovic , Svetlana Zecevic

In the theory of compressed sensing (CS), the sparsity $\|x\|_0$ of the unknown signal $\mathbf{x} \in \mathcal{R}^n$ is of prime importance and the focus of reconstruction algorithms has mainly been either $\|x\|_0$ or its convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Mithun Das Gupta

We introduce a \emph{batch} version of sparse recovery, where the goal is to report a sequence of vectors $A_1',\ldots,A_m' \in \mathbb{R}^n$ that estimate unknown signals $A_1,\ldots,A_m \in \mathbb{R}^n$ using a few linear measurements,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Alexandr Andoni , Lior Kamma , Robert Krauthgamer , Eric Price

We propose a robust inferential procedure for assessing uncertainties of parameter estimation in high-dimensional linear models, where the dimension $p$ can grow exponentially fast with the sample size $n$. Our method combines the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-19 Tianqi Zhao , Mladen Kolar , Han Liu

We propose a method for constructing confidence intervals that account for many forms of spatial correlation. The interval has the familiar `estimator plus and minus a standard error times a critical value' form, but we propose new methods…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-02-19 Ulrich K. Müller , Mark W. Watson