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In distributed sensor networks, sensors often observe a dynamic process within overlapping regions. Due to random delays, these correlated observations arrive at the fusion center asynchronously, raising a central question: How can one fuse…

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Unbiased and consistent variance estimators generally do not exist for design-based treatment effect estimators because experimenters never observe more than one potential outcome for any unit. The problem is exacerbated by interference and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-04 Christopher Harshaw , Joel A. Middleton , Fredrik Sävje

In the context of distributed estimation, we consider the problem of sensor collaboration, which refers to the act of sharing measurements with neighboring sensors prior to transmission to a fusion center. While incorporating the cost of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-22 Sijia Liu , Swarnendu Kar , Makan Fardad , Pramod K. Varshney

This work addresses the problem of fusing two random vectors with unknown cross-correlations. We present a formulation and a numerical method for computing the optimal estimate in the minimax sense. We extend our formulation to linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Spyridon Leonardos , Kostas Daniilidis

A finite-support constraint on the parameter space is used to derive a lower bound on the error of an estimator of the correlation coefficient in the bivariate exponential distribution. The bound is then exploited to examine optimality of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-13 W. J. Szajnowski

Many statistical estimands of interest (e.g., in regression or causality) are functions of the joint distribution of multiple random variables. But in some applications, data is not available that measures all random variables on each…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-11 Yicong Jiang , Lucas Janson

Data analysis based on information from several sources is common in economic and biomedical studies. This setting is often referred to as the data fusion problem, which differs from traditional missing data problems since no complete data…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-07 Wei Li , Shanshan Luo , Wangli Xu

Conformal predictive systems are a recent modification of conformal predictors that output, in regression problems, probability distributions for labels of test observations rather than set predictions. The extra information provided by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Vladimir Vovk , Ivan Petej , Ilia Nouretdinov , Valery Manokhin , Alex Gammerman

In this paper, we improved the performance of the contrast source inversion (CSI) method by incorporating a so-called cross-correlated cost functional, which interrelates the state error and the data error in the measurement domain. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Tian Jin , Alexander G. Yarovoy

The problem of covariance estimation for replicated surface-valued processes is examined from the functional data analysis perspective. Considerations of statistical and computational efficiency often compel the use of separability of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-25 Tomas Masak , Victor M. Panaretos

This paper presents a new recursive information consensus filter for decentralized dynamic-state estimation. No structure is assumed about the topology of the network and local estimators are assumed to have access only to local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Amirhossein Tamjidi , Suman Chakravorty , Dylan Shell

Quantifying degrees of fusion and separability between data groups in representation space is a fundamental problem in representation learning, particularly under domain shift. A meaningful metric should capture fusion-altering factors like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiaolong Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Xubo Song

We propose new estimates for the frontier of a set of points. They are defined as kernel estimates covering all the points and whose associated support is of smallest surface. The estimates are written as linear combinatio- ns of kernel…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-03-31 Guillaume Bouchard , Stéphane Girard , Anatoli Iouditski , Alexander Nazin

This paper considers the problem of binary distributed detection of a known signal in correlated Gaussian sensing noise in a wireless sensor network, where the sensors are restricted to use likelihood ratio test (LRT), and communicate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Nahal Maleki , Azadeh Vosoughi , Nazanin Rahnavard

We address one of the important problems in Big Data, namely how to combine estimators from different subsamples by robust fusion procedures, when we are unable to deal with the whole sample. We propose a general framework based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Catherine Aaron , Alejandro Cholaquidis , Ricardo Fraiman , Badih Ghattas

This paper introduces a new data-driven methodology for estimating sparse covariance matrices of the random coefficients in logit mixture models. Researchers typically specify covariance matrices in logit mixture models under one of two…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-16 Youssef M Aboutaleb , Mazen Danaf , Yifei Xie , Moshe Ben-Akiva

We study the problem of distributed mean estimation and optimization under communication constraints. We propose a correlated quantization protocol whose leading term in the error guarantee depends on the mean deviation of data points…

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This paper studies the event-triggered distributed fusion estimation problems for a class of nonlinear networked multisensor fusion systems without noise statistical characteristics. When considering the limited resource problems of two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Rusheng Wang , Bo Chen , Zhongyao Hu , Li Yu

A major challenge in cooperative sensing is to weight the measurements taken from the various sources to get an accurate result. Ideally, the weights should be inversely proportional to the error in the sensing information. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Edward Andert , Aviral Shrivastava

Distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) is addressed for sensors having different fields of view (FoVs). The proposed approach is based on the idea of fusing the posterior Probability Hypotheses Densities (PHDs) generated by the sensors on…

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