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Context-sensitive hypothesis-testing and exponential families

Statistics Theory 2024-07-31 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We propose a number of concepts and properties related to `weighted' statistical inference where the observed data are classified in accordance with a `value' of a sample string. The motivation comes from the concepts of weighted information and weighted entropy that proved useful in industrial/microeconomic and medical statistics. We focus on applications relevant in hypothesis testing and an analysis of exponential families. Several notions, bounds and asymptotics are established, which generalize their counterparts well-known in standard statistical research. It includes Stein-Sanov theorem, Pinsker's, Bretangnole-Huber and van Trees inequalities and Kullback--Leibler, Bhattacharya, Bregman, Burbea-Rao, Chernoff, Renyi and Tsallis divergences.

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@article{arxiv.2407.20894,
  title  = {Context-sensitive hypothesis-testing and exponential families},
  author = {Mark Kelbert and Yuri Suhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20894},
  year   = {2024}
}

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42 pages

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