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Consider the Gaussian sequence model under the additional assumption that a fixed fraction of the means is known. We study the problem of variance estimation from a frequentist Bayesian perspective. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE)…
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Gaussian universality results assert that the properties of many estimators remain unchanged when the input data are replaced by Gaussians. Such results have gained popularity in high-dimensional statistics and machine learning, as…
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A class of examples concerning the relationship of linear regression and maximal correlation is provided. More precisely, these examples show that if two random variables have (strictly) linear regression on each other, then their maximal…