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Adaptive experiments are becoming increasingly popular in real-world applications for effectively maximizing in-sample welfare and efficiency by data-driven sampling. Despite their growing prevalence, however, the statistical foundations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Ziang Niu , Zhimei Ren

An effective two-stage method for an estimation of parameters of the linear regression is considered. For this purpose we introduce a certain quasi-estimator that, in contrast to usual estimator, produces two alternative estimates. It is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-06 Anatoly Gordinsky

Factor analysis is over a century old, but it is still problematic to choose the number of factors for a given data set. The scree test is popular but subjective. The best performing objective methods are recommended on the basis of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-12 A. B. Owen , J. Wang

Motivated by the inquiries of weak signals in underpowered genome-wide association studies (GWASs), we consider the problem of retaining true signals that are not strong enough to be individually separable from a large amount of noise. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-05 X. Jessie Jeng , Yifei Hu , Quan Sun , Yun Li

Randomized controlled trials generate experimental variation that can credibly identify causal effects, but often suffer from limited scale, while observational datasets are large, but often violate desired identification assumptions. To…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-12-27 George Z. Gui

Optomechanical systems are often used for the measurement of weak forces. Feedback loops can be used in these systems for achieving noise reduction. Here we show that even though feedback is not able to improve the signal to noise ratio of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Vitali , Stefano Mancini , Paolo Tombesi

Weak measurement [1,19] combined with quantum delayed-choice experiment that use quantum beam splitter instead of the beam splitter give rise to a surprising amplification effect, i.e., counterintuitive negative amplification effect. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Gang Li , Tao Wang , Ming-Yong Ye , and He-Shan Song

In this paper we analyse the behaviour of adaptive filters or detectors when they are trained with $t$-distributed samples rather than Gaussian distributed samples. More precisely we investigate the impact on the distribution of some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Olivier Besson

The paper analyzes four classical signal-plus-noise models: the factor model, spiked sample covariance matrices, the sum of a Wigner matrix and a low-rank perturbation, and canonical correlation analysis with low-rank dependencies. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-04 Anna Bykhovskaya , Vadim Gorin , Sasha Sodin

Time-to-event endpoints show an increasing popularity in phase II cancer trials. The standard statistical tool for such one-armed survival trials is the one-sample log-rank test. Its distributional properties are commonly derived in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-02 Moritz Fabian Danzer , Andreas Faldum , Rene Schmidt

Many problems on signal processing reduce to nonparametric function estimation. We propose a new methodology, piecewise convex fitting (PCF), and give a two-stage adaptive estimate. In the first stage, the number and location of the change…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-18 Kurt Riedel

Two-stage least squares (TSLS) estimators and variants thereof are widely used to infer the effect of an exposure on an outcome using instrumental variables (IVs). They belong to a wider class of two-stage IV estimators, which are based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-08 Stijn Vansteelandt , Vanessa Didelez

Suppose that a data analyst wishes to report the results of a least squares linear regression only if the overall null hypothesis, $H_0^{1:p}: \beta_1= \beta_2 = \ldots = \beta_p=0$, is rejected. This practice, which we refer to as…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Olivia McGough , Daniela Witten , Daniel Kessler

Measurement uncertainty is a non trivial aspect of the laboratory component of most undergraduate physics courses. Confusion about the application of statistical tools calls for the elaboration of guidelines and the elimination of…

Physics Education · Physics 2012-11-20 W. Jacquet , E. Ir. Nyssen , J. Sijbers

This work deals with the a posteriori error estimates for the Darcy-Forchheimer problem. We introduce the corresponding variational formulation and discretize it by using the finite-element method. A posteriori error estimate with two types…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Georges Semaan , Toni Sayah , Faouzi Triki

The F-measure or F-score is one of the most commonly used single number measures in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, but it is based on a mistake, and the flawed assumptions render it unsuitable for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-13 David M. W. Powers

The problem of prediction in functional linear regression is conventionally addressed by reducing dimension via the standard principal component basis. In this paper we show that an alternative basis chosen through weighted least-squares,…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-02-20 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall , Tatiyana V. Apanasovich

Experimentation platforms in industry must often deal with customer trust issues. Platforms must prove the validity of their claims as well as catch issues that arise. As a central quantity estimated by experimentation platforms, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-21 Kedar Karhadkar , Jack Klys , Daniel Ting , Artem Vorozhtsov , Houssam Nassif

The Friedman test has been extensively applied as a nonparametric alternative to the conventional F procedure for comparing treatment effects in randomized complete block designs. A chi-square distribution provides a convenient…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Show-Li Jan , Gwowen Shieh

We introduce a first-order quantum-phase-transition model, which exhibits giant sensitivity $\chi \propto N^2$ at the critical point. Exploiting this effect, we propose a quantum critical detector (QCD) to amplify weak input signals. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Li-Ping Yang , Zubin Jacob