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Recently Qiu et al. (2017) have introduced residual extropy as measure of uncertainty in residual lifetime distributions analogues to residual entropy (1996). Also, they obtained some properties and applications of that. In this paper, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Osman Kamari , Francesco Buono

In this paper, we define general weighted cumulative residual extropy (GWCRJ) and general weighted negative cumulative extropy (GWNCJ). We obtain its simple estimators for complete and right censored data. We obtain some results on GWCREJ…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Nitin Gupta , Santosh Kumar Chaudhary , Pradeep Kumar Sahu

This paper deals with testing for nondegenerate normality of a $d$-variate random vector $X$ based on a random sample $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ of $X$. The rationale of the test is that the characteristic function $\psi(t) = \exp(-\|t\|^2/2)$ of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Philip Dörr , Bruno Ebner , Norbert Henze

This paper develops a conditional independence (CI) test from a conditional density ratio (CDR) for weakly dependent data. The main contribution is presenting a closed-form expression for the estimated conditional density ratio function…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-25 Chunrong Ai , Zixuan Xu , Zheng Zhang

In this paper, we develop a relative cumulative residual information measure (RCRI) that aims to quantify the divergence between two survival functions. The dynamic relative cumulative residual information (DRCRI) measure is also…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-12 Mary Andrews , Smitha S , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

In generalized extreme value model for the r largest order statistics, denoted by rGEV, the selection of r is critical. The existing entropy difference test for selecting r is applicable to large sample. Another existing method (the score…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-02 Yire Shin , Jihong Park , Jeong-Soo Park

Given n observations, we study the consistency of a batch of k new observations, in terms of their distribution function. We propose a non-parametric, non-likelihood test based on Edgeworth expansion of the distribution function. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-08 Mahendra Mariadassou , Avner Bar-Hen

Neural Differential Equations (NDEs) excel at modeling continuous-time dynamics, effectively handling challenges such as irregular observations, missing values, and noise. Despite their advantages, NDEs face a fundamental challenge in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-19 Jonghun Lee , YongKyung Oh , Sungil Kim , Dong-Young Lim

The growing demand for personalized decision-making has led to a surge of interest in estimating the Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE). Various types of CATE estimators have been developed with advancements in machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yiyan Huang , Cheuk Hang Leung , Siyi Wang , Yijun Li , Qi Wu

The density ratio model (DRM) is a semiparametric model that relates the distributions from multiple samples to a nonparametrically defined reference distribution via exponential tilting, with finite-dimensional parameters governing their…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-13 James Hugh McVittie , Archer Gong Zhang

Cross-entropy (CE) is the default training loss for supervised classification, but its sample efficiency is limited when labels are scarce. Existing remedies primarily act on the data side, via augmentation, synthesis, or transfer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qipeng Zhan , Zhuoping Zhou , Li Shen

In recent years, the complementary dual of entropy, known as extropy, has emerged as a valuable tool for quantifying uncertainty in probability distributions. This work investigates the behavior of failure extropy in the multidimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Aman Pandey , Chanchal Kundu

In this paper, we obtain a new characterization result for symmetric distributions based on the entropy measure. Using the characterization, we propose a nonparametric test to test the symmetry of a distribution. We also develop the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ganesh Vishnu Avhad , Ananya Lahiri , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

The study on the generating function approach to entropy become popular as it generates several well-known entropy measures discussed in the literature. In this work, we define the weighted cumulative residual entropy generating function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Smitha S. , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil , Sreedevi E. P

We propose a new method named the Conditional Randomization Rank Test (CRRT) for testing conditional independence of a response variable Y and a covariate variable X, conditional on the rest of the covariates Z. The new method generalizes…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-02 Yanjie Zhong , Todd Kuffner , Soumendra Lahiri

In multiple classification, one aims to determine whether a testing sequence is generated from the same distribution as one of the M training sequences or not. Unlike most of existing studies that focus on discrete-valued sequences with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Lina Zhu , Lin Zhou

Perhaps surprisingly, recent studies have shown probabilistic model likelihoods have poor specificity for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and often assign higher likelihoods to OOD data than in-distribution data. To ameliorate this…

Given a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables, a novel nonparametric maximum entropy method is presented to estimate the underlying continuous univariate probability density function (pdf). Estimates are found…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Jenny Farmer , Donald J. Jacobs

We revisit the outlier hypothesis testing framework of Li \emph{et al.} (TIT 2014) and derive fundamental limits for the optimal test. In outlier hypothesis testing, one is given multiple observed sequences, where most sequences are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Lin Zhou , Yun Wei , Alfred Hero

In this paper, we use and further develop upon a recently proposed multivariate, distribution-free Goodness-of-Fit (GoF) test based on the theory of Optimal Transport (OT) called the Rank Energy (RE) [1], for non-parametric and unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Shoaib Bin Masud , Shuchin Aeron