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Research in NLP is often supported by experimental results, and improved reporting of such results can lead to better understanding and more reproducible science. In this paper we analyze three statistical estimators for expected validation…

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In this paper we have proposed an almost unbiased estimator using known value of some population parameter(s) with known population proportion of an auxiliary variable. A class of estimators is defined which includes [1], [2] and [3]…

Applications · Statistics 2014-06-04 Sachin Malik , Rajesh Singh , SB Gupta

We consider benchmarked empirical Bayes (EB) estimators under the basic area-level model of Fay and Herriot while requiring the standard benchmarking constraint. In this paper we determine the excess mean squared error (MSE) from…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-08 Rebecca C. Steorts , Malay Ghosh

Maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) approaches are an effective framework for inverse problems with known forward operators, particularly when combined with expressive priors and careful parameter selection. In blind settings, however, their use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nathan Buskulic , Luca Calatroni

Recently there has been a great deal of interest surrounding the calibration of quantum sensors using machine learning techniques. In this work, we explore the use of regression to infer a machine-learned point estimate of an unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Samuel P. Nolan , Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

The limit distribution of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator for interval censored data with more than one observation time per unobservable observation, is still unknown in general. For the so-called separated case, where one…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Piet Groeneboom

The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is pivotal in statistical inference, yet its application is often hindered by the absence of closed-form solutions for many models. This poses challenges in real-time computation scenarios,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-16 Pedro L. Ramos , Eduardo Ramos , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Francisco Louzada

Many statistical estimators for high-dimensional linear regression are M-estimators, formed through minimizing a data-dependent square loss function plus a regularizer. This work considers a new class of estimators implicitly defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Peng Zhao , Yun Yang , Qiao-Chu He

This paper studies the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) of estimating $\mathbf{X} \in \mathbb{R}^d$ from the noisy observation $\mathbf{Y} \in \mathbb{R}^k$, under the assumption that the noise (i.e., $\mathbf{Y}|\mathbf{X}$) is a member…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ian Zieder , Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

We characterize the squared prediction risk of ensemble estimators obtained through subagging (subsample bootstrap aggregating) regularized M-estimators and construct a consistent estimator for the risk. Specifically, we consider a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Takuya Koriyama , Pratik Patil , Jin-Hong Du , Kai Tan , Pierre C. Bellec

The linear regression model with a random variable (RV) measurement matrix, where the mean of the random measurement matrix has full column rank, has been extensively studied. In particular, the quasiconvexity of the maximum likelihood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Ruohai Guo , Jiang Zhu , Xing Jiang , Fengzhong Qu

This two-part work considers the minimum means square error (MMSE) estimation problem for a high dimensional multi-layer generalized linear model (ML-GLM), which resembles a feed-forward fully connected deep learning network in that each of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haochuan Zhang , Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

In this article we have suggested an improved estimator for estimating the population mean in simple random sampling using auxiliary information under the presence of measurement errors. The mean square error (MSE) of the proposed estimator…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-05 Sachin Malik , Jayant Singh , Rajesh Singh

The problem of accurate nonparametric estimation of distributional functionals (integral functionals of one or more probability distributions) has received recent interest due to their wide applicability in signal processing, information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Kevin R. Moon , Kumar Sricharan , Alfred O. Hero

In Ruckdeschel[10], we derive an asymptotic expansion of the maximal mean squared error (MSE) of location M-estimators on suitably thinned out, shrinking gross error neighborhoods. In this paper, we compile several consequences of this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-02 Peter Ruckdeschel

We consider distributed estimation of a Gaussian source in a heterogenous bandwidth constrained sensor network, where the source is corrupted by independent multiplicative and additive observation noises, with incomplete statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Alireza Sani , Azadeh Vosoughi

Minimizing the Mean Squared Error (MSE) is a key objective in machine learning and is commonly used for imputing missing values. While this approach provides accurate point estimates, it introduces systematic biases in downstream analyses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-06 Stef van Buuren

In this article, we analyse the accuracy and computational complexity of estimators for expected functionals of the solution to multi-dimensional parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) of Zakai-type. Here, we use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Christoph Reisinger , Zhenru Wang

The purpose of this article is to develop a general parametric estimation theory that allows the derivation of the limit distribution of estimators in non-regular models where the true parameter value may lie on the boundary of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Junichiro Yoshida , Nakahiro Yoshida