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We analyze a simple prefiltered variation of the least squares estimator for the problem of estimation with biased, semi-parametric noise, an error model studied more broadly in causal statistics and active learning. We prove an oracle…
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We investigate the problem of jointly testing a pair of composite hypotheses and, depending on the test result, estimating a random parameter under distributional uncertainties. Specifically, it is assumed that the distribution of the data…
We study the problem of loss estimation that involves for an observable $X \sim f_{\theta}$ the choice of a first-stage estimator $\hat{\gamma}$ of $\gamma(\theta)$, incurred loss $L=L(\theta, \hat{\gamma})$, and the choice of a…
This paper studies a class of exponential family models whose canonical parameters are specified as linear functionals of an unknown infinite-dimensional slope function. The optimal minimax rates of convergence for slope function estimation…
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