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We investigate robust parameter estimation and testing procedure for multivariate diffusion processes observed at high frequency via the minimum density power divergence estimator (MDPDE). Within a general diffusion framework and under…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Sourojyoti Barick

This paper introduces a new superfamily of divergences that is similar in spirit to the S-divergence family introduced by Ghosh et al. (2013). This new family serves as an umbrella that contains the logarithmic power divergence family…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-16 Avijit Maji , Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

In real life, we frequently come across data sets that involve some independent explanatory variable(s) generating a set of ordinal responses. These ordinal responses may correspond to an underlying continuous latent variable, which is…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-08 Arijit Pyne , Subhrajyoty Roy , Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

Minimum divergence methods are popular tools in a variety of statistical applications. We consider tubular model adequacy tests, and demonstrate that the new divergences that are generated in the process are very useful in robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-16 Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

This paper presents new families of Rao-type test statistics based on the minimum density power divergence estimators which provide robust generalizations for testing simple and composite null hypotheses. The asymptotic null distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-27 Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

Zhang (2019) presented a general estimation approach based on the Gaussian distribution for general parametric models where the likelihood of the data is difficult to obtain or unknown, but the mean and variance-covariance matrix are known.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Ángel Felipe , María Jaenada , Pedro Miranda , Leandro Pardo

From the perspective of data reduction, the notions of minimal sufficient and complete statistics together play an important role in determining optimal statistics (estimators). The classical notion of sufficiency and completeness are not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Himanshi Singh , Tanmay Sahoo , Nil Kamal Hazra

This paper deals with the asymptotic statistical properties of a class of redescending M-estimators in linear models with increasing dimension. This class is wide enough to include popular high breakdown point estimators such as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Ezequiel Smucler

Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

In this paper a new family of minimum divergence estimators based on the Bregman divergence is proposed, where the defining convex function has an exponential nature. These estimators avoid the necessity of using an intermediate kernel…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-25 Taranga Mukherjee , Abhijit Mandal , Ayanendranath Basu

Analyzing polytomous response from a complex survey scheme, like stratified or cluster sampling is very crucial in several socio-economics applications. We present a class of minimum quasi weighted density power divergence estimators for…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-05 Elena Castilla , Abhik Ghosh , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

The convergence speed of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can be improved by actively selecting mini-batches. We explore sampling schemes where similar data points are less likely to be selected in the same mini-batch. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-21 Cheng Zhang , Cengiz Öztireli , Stephan Mandt , Giampiero Salvi

We present a robust test for composite null hypothesis based on the general $S$-divergence family. This requires a non-trivial extension of the results of Ghosh et al.~(2015). We derive the asymptotic and theoretical robustness properties…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

This paper develops a new family of estimators, the minimum density power divergence estimators (MDPDEs), for the parameters of the one-shot device model as well as a new family of test statistics, Z-type test statistics based on MDPDEs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-27 N. Balakrishnan , E. Castilla , N. Martin , L. Pardo

We study a mini-batch diversification scheme for stochastic gradient descent (SGD). While classical SGD relies on uniformly sampling data points to form a mini-batch, we propose a non-uniform sampling scheme based on the Determinantal Point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Cheng Zhang , Hedvig Kjellstrom , Stephan Mandt

This paper deals with four types of point estimators based on minimization of information-theoretic divergences between hypothetical and empirical distributions. These were introduced (i) by Liese & Vajda (2006) and independently…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-06 Michel Broniatowski , Igor Vajda

This paper introduces a robust estimation framework based solely on the copula function. We begin by introducing a family of divergence measures tailored for copulas, including the \(\alpha\)-, \(\beta\)-, and \(\gamma\)-copula divergences,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-18 Shinto Eguchi , Shogo Kato

Statistical divergences (SDs), which quantify the dissimilarity between probability distributions, are a basic constituent of statistical inference and machine learning. A modern method for estimating those divergences relies on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld

In testing of hypothesis the robustness of the tests is an important concern. Generally, the maximum likelihood based tests are most efficient under standard regularity conditions, but they are highly non-robust even under small deviations…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-01 Ayanendranath Basu , Abhijit Mandal , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

Preserving the robustness of the procedure has, at the present time, become almost a default requirement for statistical data analysis. Since efficiency at the model and robustness under misspecification of the model are often in conflict,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Saptarshi Roy , Kaustav Chakraborty , Somnath Bhadra , Ayanendranath Basu