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In this article, we propose a class of test statistics for a change point in the mean of high-dimensional independent data. Our test integrates the U-statistic based approach in a recent work by \cite{hdcp} and the $L_q$-norm based…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Yangfan Zhang , Runmin Wang , Xiaofeng Shao

This paper aims to develop an effective model-free inference procedure for high-dimensional data. We first reformulate the hypothesis testing problem via sufficient dimension reduction framework. With the aid of new reformulation, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-17 Xu Guo , Runze Li , Zhe Zhang , Changliang Zou

This work considers the problem of estimating the distance between two covariance matrices directly from the data. Particularly, we are interested in the family of distances that can be expressed as sums of traces of functions that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Roberto Pereira , Xavier Mestre , Davig Gregoratti

This paper presents a procedure for testing the hypothesis that the underlying distribution of the data is elliptical when using robust location and scatter estimators instead of the sample mean and covariance matrix. Under mild assumptions…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-20 Ana M. Bianco , Graciela Boente , Isabel M. Rodrigues

Change point tests for abrupt changes in the mean of functional data, i.e., random elements in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, are either based on dimension reduction techniques, e.g., based on principal components, or directly based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Claudia Kirch , Hedvika Ranošová , Martin Wendler

In this paper we obtain an adjusted version of the likelihood ratio test for errors-in-variables multivariate linear regression models. The error terms are allowed to follow a multivariate distribution in the class of the elliptical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-05 Tatiane F. N. Melo , Silvia L. P. Ferrari

In this paper, we introduce a joint central limit theorem (CLT) for specific bilinear forms, encompassing the resolvent of the sample covariance matrix under an elliptical distribution. Through an exhaustive exploration of our theoretical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Yanqing Yin , Wang Zhou

This paper investigates a statistical procedure for testing the equality of two independently estimated covariance matrices when the number of potentially dependent data vectors is large and proportional to the size of the vectors, that is,…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-13 Rémy Mariétan , Stephan Morgenthaler

The paper discusses a statistical problem related to testing for differences between two sparse networks with community structures. The community-wise edge probability matrices have entries of order $O(n^{-1}/\log n)$, where $n$ represents…

Applications · Statistics 2023-04-04 Qianyong Wu , Jiang Hu

Consider the space of two dimensional random linear cocycles over a shift in finitely many symbols, with at least one singular and one invertible matrix. We provide an explicit formula for the unique stationary measure associated to such…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Pedro Duarte , Marcelo Durães , Tomé Graxinha , Silvius Klein

The goal of this study was to test the equality of two covariance matrices by using modified Pillai's trace statistics under a high-dimensional framework, i.e., the dimension and sample sizes go to infinity proportionally. In this paper, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Qiuyan Zhang , Jiang Hu , Zhidong Bai

This work considers the asymptotic behavior of the distance between two sample covariance matrices (SCM). A general result is provided for a class of functionals that can be expressed as sums of traces of functions that are separately…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Roberto Pereira , Xavier Mestre , David Gregoratti

This work is motivated by a biological experiment with a split-plot design, for the purpose of comparison of the changing patterns in seed weight from two treatment groups as subgroups in each of the two groups subject to increasing levels…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-16 Yishi Wang , Ann E. Stapleton , Cuixian Chen

Although there is an extensive literature on the eigenvalues of high-dimensional sample covariance matrices, much of it is specialized to independent components (IC) models -- in which observations are represented as linear transformations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Siyao Wang , Miles E. Lopes

In this paper, we consider the problem of testing equality of the covariance matrices of L complex Gaussian multivariate time series of dimension $M$ . We study the special case where each of the L covariance matrices is modeled as a rank K…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Rémi Beisson , Pascal Vallet , Audrey Giremus , Guillaume Ginolhac

We consider the hypothesis testing problem of detecting a shift between the means of two multivariate normal distributions in the high-dimensional setting, allowing for the data dimension p to exceed the sample size n. Specifically, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Miles E. Lopes , Laurent J. Jacob , Martin J. Wainwright

In this paper, we introduce a ${\mathcal L}_2$ type test for testing mutual independence and banded dependence structure for high dimensional data. The test is constructed based on the pairwise distance covariance and it accounts for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-20 Shun Yao , Xianyang Zhang , Xiaofeng Shao

The problem of testing the equality of mean vectors for high-dimensional data has been intensively investigated in the literature. However, most of the existing tests impose strong assumptions on the underlying group covariance matrices…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Tianming Zhu , Pengfei Wang , Jin-Ting Zhang

Two-sample $U$-statistics are widely used in a broad range of applications, including those in the fields of biostatistics and econometrics. In this paper, we establish sharp Cram\'{e}r-type moderate deviation theorems for Studentized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jinyuan Chang , Qi-Man Shao , Wen-Xin Zhou

Most existing methods for testing equality of means of functional data from multiple populations rely on assumptions of equal covariance and/or Gaussianity. In this work we provide a new testing method based on a statistic that is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-30 Chuang Xu , Andrew T. A. Wood , Yanrong Yang