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We critically assess the robustness of uncertainties on parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined using neural networks from global sets of experimental data collected from multiple experiments. We view the determination of PDFs as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Andrea Barontini , Mark N. Costantini , Giovanni De Crescenzo , Stefano Forte , Maria Ubiali

A sizable amount of goodness-of-fit tests involving functional data have appeared in the last decade. We provide a relatively compact revision of most of these contributions, within the independent and identically distributed framework, by…

This paper develops a smooth test of goodness-of-fit for elliptical distributions. The test is adaptively omnibus, invariant to affine-linear transformations and has a convenient expression that can be broken into components. These…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Gilles R. Ducharme , Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux

Many binary classification problems minimize misclassification above (or below) a threshold. We show that instances of ranking problems, accuracy at the top or hypothesis testing may be written in this form. We propose a general framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Lukáš Adam , Václav Mácha , Václav Šmídl , Tomáš Pevný

We present a first global closure test of the fixed parameterisation (MSHT) approach to PDF fitting. We find that the default MSHT20 parameterisation can reproduce the features of the input set in such a closure test to well within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-24 L. A. Harland-Lang , T. Cridge , R. S. Thorne

Functional linear models are one of the most fundamental tools to assess the relation between two random variables of a functional or scalar nature. This contribution proposes a goodness-of-fit test for the functional linear model with…

The problem of making practical, useful goodness of fit tests in the Bayesian paradigm is largely open. We introduce a class of special cases (testing for uniformity: have the cards been shuffled enough; does my random generator work) and a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-11 Persi Diaconis , Guanyang Wang

Statistical modeling plays a fundamental role in understanding the underlying mechanism of massive data (statistical inference) and predicting the future (statistical prediction). Although all models are wrong, researchers try their best to…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-17 Hangjin Jiang

The method of closure testing for analysing the effectiveness of a PDF fitting procedure is discussed. In order to pass a closure test, a fitting methodology must be able to reproduce a known generating function in a fit to an ideal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-09 Nathan P. Hartland , Christopher S. Deans

A common problem in physics is to fit regression data by a parametric class of functions, and to decide whether a certain functional form allows for a good fit of the data. Common goodness of fit methods are based on the calculation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Bissantz , A. Munk

In this work, the distributional properties of the goodness-of-fit term in likelihood-based information criteria are explored. These properties are then leveraged to construct a novel goodness-of-fit test for normal linear regression models…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-20 Scott H. Koeneman , Joseph E. Cavanaugh

A method to approximate continuous multi-dimensional probability density functions (PDFs) using their projections and correlations is described. The method is particularly useful for event classification when estimates of systematic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-10-31 Dean Karlen

Testing procedures for assessing a parametric regression model with circular response and $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued covariate are proposed and analyzed in this work both for independent and for spatially correlated data. The test statistics are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-01 Andrea Meilán-Vila , Mario Francisco-Fernández , Rosa M. Crujeiras

Several recent works encourage the use of a Bayesian framework when assessing performance and fairness metrics of a classification algorithm in a supervised setting. We propose the Uncertainty Matters (UM) framework that generalizes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ainhize Barrainkua , Paula Gordaliza , Jose A. Lozano , Novi Quadrianto

We consider goodness-of-fit tests for the distribution of the composed error in Stochastic Frontier Models. The proposed test statistic utilizes the characteristic function of the composed error term, and is formulated as a weighted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Simos G. Meintanis , Christos K. Papadimitriou

PDFs remain the dominant format for scholarly communication, despite significant accessibility challenges for blind and low-vision users. While various tools attempt to evaluate PDF accessibility, there is no standardized methodology to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Anukriti Kumar , Tanushree Padath , Lucy Lu Wang

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

This paper develops goodness of fit statistics that can be used to formally assess Markov random field models for spatial data, when the model distributions are discrete or continuous and potentially parametric. Test statistics are formed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Mark S. Kaiser , Soumendra N. Lahiri , Daniel J. Nordman

In this paper, we provide new theoretical results on the generalization properties of learning algorithms for multiclass classification problems. The originality of our work is that we propose to use the confusion matrix of a classifier as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Pierre Machart , Liva Ralaivola

The confusion matrix is a standard tool for evaluating classifiers by providing insights into class-level errors. In heterogeneous settings, its values are shaped by two main factors: class similarity -- how easily the model confuses two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Johan Erbani , Pierre-Edouard Portier , Elod Egyed-Zsigmond , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Diana Nurbakova