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Linear structural error-in-variables models with univariate observations are revisited for studying modified least squares estimators of the slope and intercept. New marginal central limit theorems (CLT's) are established for these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Yuliya V. Martsynyuk

The number of real roots has been a central subject in the theory of random polynomials and random functions since the fundamental papers of Littlewood-Offord and Kac in the 1940s. The main task here is to determine the limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Oanh Nguyen , Van Vu

Statistical inferences for sample correlation matrices are important in high dimensional data analysis. Motivated by this, this paper establishes a new central limit theorem (CLT) for a linear spectral statistic (LSS) of high dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Jiti Gao , Xiao Han , Guangming Pan , Yanrong Yang

Let $\mathbf{A}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{np}}(\mathbf{X}^T\mathbf{X}-p\mathbf {I}_n)$ where $\mathbf{X}$ is a $p\times n$ matrix, consisting of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real random variables $X_{ij}$ with mean zero and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Binbin Chen , Guangming Pan

We prove the central limit theorem (CLT) for a sequence of independent zero-mean random variables $\xi_j$, perturbed by predictable multiplicative factors $\lambda_j$ with values in intervals $[\underline\lambda_j,\overline\lambda_j]$. It…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-31 Dmitry B. Rokhlin

This paper re-examines the limit theorems of Abadie and Imbens for nearest-neighbor matching estimators of average treatment effects with a fixed number of matches. We establish, for the first time, a non-normalized central limit theorem…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Songliang Chen , Fang Han

The multivariate central limit theorems (CLT) for the volumes of excursion sets of stationary quasi-associated random fields on $\mathbb{R}^d$ are proved. Special attention is paid to Gaussian and shot noise fields. Formulae for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Alexander Bulinski , Evgeny Spodarev , Florian Timmermann

The Central Limit Theorem provides a foundation for inferential statistics and hypothesis testing. It describes how standardized statistics behave under repeated sampling from large populations. However, if the size of the sample (n)…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Mike Crowhurst

We obtain large deviations estimates for both sequential and random compositions of intermittent maps. We also address the question of whether or not centering is necessary for the quenched central limit theorems (CLT) obtained by Nicol,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Matthew Nicol , Felipe Perez Pereira , Andrew Torok

This paper investigates the behavior of statistical ensembles under iteration map induced by discrete integrable Hamiltonian systems in deterministic case and stochastic case, addressing the problem from two perspectives: the Law of Large…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Xinyu Liu , Xinze Zhang , Yong Li

We consider a combination of heavily trimmed sums and sample quantiles which arises when examining properties of clustering criteria and prove limit theorems. The object of interest, which we call the Empirical Cross-over Function, is an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Karthik Bharath , Vladimir Pozdnyakov , Dipak Dey

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their scalability raises a critical question: Have we reached the scaling ceiling? This paper addresses this pivotal question by developing a unified theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Charles Luo

We study the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) in the so-called hybrid Lebesgue-continuous spaces and tail behavior of normed sums of centered random independent variables (vectors) with values in these spaces.

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-11 E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

We discuss CLT for the global and local linear statistics of random matrices from classical compact groups. The main part of our proofs are certain combinatorial identities much in the spirit of works by Kac and Spohn.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Soshnikov

We present a central limit theorem for stationary random fields that are short-range dependent and asymptotically independent. As an application, we present a central limit theorem for an infinite family of interacting It\^o-type diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Le Chen , Davar Khoshnevisan , David Nualart , Fei Pu

Frequentists' inference often delivers point estimators associated with confidence intervals or sets for parameters of interest. Constructing the confidence intervals or sets requires understanding the sampling distributions of the point…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Xinran Li , Peng Ding

In this paper, we establish the central limit theorem (CLT) for linear spectral statistics (LSS) of large-dimensional sample covariance matrix when the population covariance matrices are not uniformly bounded, which is a nontrivial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Zhijun Liu , Jiang Hu , Zhidong Bai , Haiyan Song

In this paper, we establish the central limit theorem (CLT) for the linear spectral statistics (LSS) of sample correlation matrix $R$, constructed from a $p\times n$ data matrix $X$ with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Yanpeng Li , Guangming Pan , Jiahui Xie , Wang Zhou

This article presents a statistical analysis method and introduces the corresponding software package "tailstat," which is believed to be widely applicable to today's internet society. The proposed method facilitates statistical analyses…

Applications · Statistics 2010-02-26 Kazutaka Kurihara , Yohei Tutiya

A law of large numbers and a central limit theorem are derived for linear statistics of random symmetric matrices whose on-or-above diagonal entries are independent, but neither necessarily identically distributed, nor necessarily all of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Greg Anderson , Ofer Zeitouni