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The estimation of a density profile from experimental data points is a challenging problem, usually tackled by plotting a histogram. Prior assumptions on the nature of the density, from its smoothness to the specification of its form, allow…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-13 Alberto Bernacchia , Simone Pigolotti

This paper generalizes recent proposals of density forecasting models and it develops theory for this class of models. In density forecasting, the density of observations is estimated in regions where the density is not observed.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Young K. Lee , Enno Mammen , Jens P. Nielsen , Byeong U. Park

For a stationary moving average random field, a non-parametric low frequency estimator of the L\'evy density of its infinitely divisible independently scattered integrator measure is given. The plug-in estimate is based on the solution $w$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Jochen Glück , Stefan Roth , Evgeny Spodarev

The paper focuses on the automatic selection of the grouped explanatory variables in an high-dimensional model, when the model errors are asymmetric. After introducing the model and notations, we define the adaptive group LASSO expectile…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Angelo Alcaraz , Gabriela Ciuperca

We consider a generalisation of Ulam's method for approximating invariant densities of one-dimensional chaotic maps. Rather than use piecewise constant polynomials to approximate the density, we use polynomials of degree n which are defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-28 Philip J. Aston , Oliver Junge

A new approach to $L_2$-consistent estimation of a general density functional using $k$-nearest neighbor distances is proposed, where the functional under consideration is in the form of the expectation of some function $f$ of the densities…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-14 J. Jon Ryu , Shouvik Ganguly , Young-Han Kim , Yung-Kyun Noh , Daniel D. Lee

The effect of uncertainties and noise on a quantity of interest (model output) is often better described by its probability density function (PDF) than by its moments. Although density estimation is a common task, the adequacy of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Adi Ditkowski , Gadi Fibich , Amir Sagiv

We tackle the problem of high-dimensional nonparametric density estimation by taking the class of log-concave densities on $\mathbb{R}^p$ and incorporating within it symmetry assumptions, which facilitate scalable estimation algorithms and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Min Xu , Richard J. Samworth

A new algorithm for the derivation of low-density expansions has been used to greatly extend the series for moments of the pair-connectedness on the directed square lattice near an impenetrable wall. Analysis of the series yields very…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Iwan Jensen

This paper deals with the problem of density estimation. We aim at building an estimate of an unknown density as a linear combination of functions of a dictionary. Inspired by Cand\`es and Tao's approach, we propose an $\ell_1$-minimization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Karine Bertin , Erwan Le Pennec , Vincent Rivoirard

Density level sets can be estimated using plug-in methods, excess mass algorithms or a hybrid of the two previous methodologies. The plug-in algorithms are based on replacing the unknown density by some nonparametric estimator, usually the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-26 A. Rodríguez-Casal , P. Saavedra-Nieves

We investigate an algorithm named histogram transform ensembles (HTE) density estimator whose effectiveness is supported by both solid theoretical analysis and significant experimental performance. On the theoretical side, by decomposing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Hanyuan Hang

We propose an iterative estimating equations procedure for analysis of longitudinal data. We show that, under very mild conditions, the probability that the procedure converges at an exponential rate tends to one as the sample size…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-12-18 Jiming Jiang , Yihui Luan , You-Gan Wang

Given an i.i.d. sample $X_1,...,X_n$ with common bounded density $f_0$ belonging to a Sobolev space of order $\alpha$ over the real line, estimation of the quadratic functional $\int_{\mathbb{R}}f_0^2(x) \mathrm{d}x$ is considered. It is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Evarist Giné , Richard Nickl

A mixture density, $f_p,$ is estimable in $R^d, \ d \ge 1,$ but an estimate for the mixing density, $p,$ is usually obtained only when $d$ is unity; $h$ is the mixture's kernel. When $f_p$'s estimate has form $f_{\hat p_n}$ and $p$ is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Yannis G. Yatracos

In this paper, we study two problems: (1) estimation of a $d$-dimensional log-concave distribution and (2) bounded multivariate convex regression with random design with an underlying log-concave density or a compactly supported…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Gil Kur , Yuval Dagan , Alexander Rakhlin

Aggregation of noisy observations involves a difficult tradeoff between observation quality, which can be increased by increasing the number of observations, and aggregation quality which decreases if the number of observations is too…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Tatsuto Murayama , Peter Davis

This paper studies the expected $L_p$-discrepancy ($2 \leq p < \infty$) for stratified sampling schemes under importance sampling. We introduce a parametric family of equivolume partitions $\Omega_{\theta,\sim}$ and leverage recent exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Xiaoda Xu

We study the problem of online monotone density estimation, where density estimators must be constructed in a predictable manner from sequentially observed data. We propose two online estimators: an online analogue of the classical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Rohan Hore , Ruodu Wang , Aaditya Ramdas

Predictive inference requires balancing statistical accuracy against informational complexity, yet the choice of complexity measure is usually imposed rather than derived. We treat econometric objects as predictive rules, mappings from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Nicholas G. Polson , Daniel Zantedeschi