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In supervised learning, the output variable to be predicted is often represented as a function, such as a spectrum or probability distribution. Despite its importance, functional output regression remains relatively unexplored. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-19 Minoru Kusaba , Megumi Iwayama , Ryo Yoshida

Random forests are a statistical learning method widely used in many areas of scientific research because of its ability to learn complex relationships between input and output variables and also its capacity to handle high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-19 Louis Capitaine , Jérémie Bigot , Rodolphe Thiébaut , Robin Genuer

We propose inferential tools for functional linear quantile regression where the conditional quantile of a scalar response is assumed to be a linear functional of a functional covariate. In contrast to conventional approaches, we employ…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Peijun Sang , Zuofeng Shang , Pang Du

We propose new reproducing kernel-based tests for model checking in conditional moment restriction models. By regressing estimated residuals on kernel functions via kernel ridge regression (KRR), we obtain a coefficient function in a…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-05-05 Yuhao Li

In this paper, an adaptive non-parametric method is proposed to estimate the scalar-valued nonlinear function that appears in uncertain systems governed by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). By employing an infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Jia Guo , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew J. Kurdila

A Hilbert space embedding of a distribution---in short, a kernel mean embedding---has recently emerged as a powerful tool for machine learning and inference. The basic idea behind this framework is to map distributions into a reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-15 Krikamol Muandet , Kenji Fukumizu , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Bernhard Schölkopf

The analysis of samples of random objects that do not lie in a vector space is gaining increasing attention in statistics. An important class of such object data is univariate probability measures defined on the real line. Adopting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-07 Yaqing Chen , Zhenhua Lin , Hans-Georg Müller

Mixed effect modeling for longitudinal data is challenging when the observed data are random objects, which are complex data taking values in a general metric space without linear structure. In such settings the classical additive error…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-13 Satarupa Bhattacharjee , Hans-Georg Müller

Advancements in data collection have led to increasingly common repeated observations with complex structures in biomedical studies. Treating these observations as random objects, rather than summarizing features as vectors, avoids feature…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-04 Jingru Zhang , Shengjie Zhang , Christopher W Jones , Mathias Basner , Haochang Shou

With the rapid development of data collection techniques, complex data objects that are not in the Euclidean space are frequently encountered in new statistical applications. Fr\'echet regression model (Peterson & M\"uller 2019) provides a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-08 Qi Zhang , Lingzhou Xue , Bing Li

In this paper, we consider nonparametric estimation over general Dirichlet metric measure spaces. Unlike the more commonly studied reproducing kernel Hilbert space, whose elements may be defined pointwise, a Dirichlet space typically only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Prem Talwai , David Simchi-Levi

Fr\'echet mean and variance provide a way of obtaining mean and variance for general metric space valued random variables and can be used for statistical analysis of data objects that lie in abstract spaces devoid of algebraic structure and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Paromita Dubey , Hans-Georg Müller

Depth measures are powerful tools for defining level sets in emerging, non--standard, and complex random objects such as high-dimensional multivariate data, functional data, and random graphs. Despite their favorable theoretical properties,…

This paper proposes a multivariate nonlinear function-on-function regression model, which allows both the response and the covariates can be multi-dimensional functions. The model is built upon the multivariate functional reproducing kernel…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-28 Xu Haijie , Zhang Chen

A mathematical model for variable selection in functional regression models with scalar response is proposed. By "variable selection" we mean a procedure to replace the whole trajectories of the functional explanatory variables with their…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-21 José R. Berrendero , Beatriz Bueno-Larraz , Antonio Cuevas

Additive regression models are actively researched in the statistical field because of their usefulness in the analysis of responses determined by non-linear relationships with multivariate predictors. In this kind of statistical models,…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-14 German A. Schnaidt Grez , Brani Vidakovic

Fr\'echet regression extends linear regression to model complex responses in metric spaces, making it particularly relevant for multi-label regression, where eachinstance can have multiple associated labels. However, addressing noise and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-01 Dou El Kefel Mansouri , Seif-Eddine Benkabou , Khalid Benabdeslem

The reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embedding method is a recently introduced estimation approach that seeks to identify the unknown or uncertain function in the governing equations of a nonlinear set of ordinary differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Jia Guo , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew J. Kurdila

We propose a roughness regularization approach in making nonparametric inference for generalized functional linear models. In a reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework, we construct asymptotically valid confidence intervals for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Zuofeng Shang , Guang Cheng

In this paper, we consider the coefficient-based regularized distribution regression which aims to regress from probability measures to real-valued responses over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), where the regularization is put on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-29 Yuan Mao , Lei Shi , Zheng-Chu Guo