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The challenge of location testing for high-dimensional data in statistical inference is notable. Existing literature suggests various methods, many of which impose strong regularity conditions on underlying covariance matrices to ensure…
The principal support vector machines method (Li et al., 2011) is a powerful tool for sufficient dimension reduction that replaces original predictors with their low-dimensional linear combinations without loss of information. However, the…
Introduced over a century ago, Whittaker-Henderson smoothing remains widely used by actuaries in constructing one-dimensional and two-dimensional experience tables for mortality, disability and other life insurance risks. In this paper, we…
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