Research Group "Stochastic Algorithms and Nonparametric Statistics"
Research Seminar "Mathematical Statistics" SS 2021
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| 14.04.2021 | N.N. |
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| 21.04.2021 | N.N. |
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| 28.04.2021 | N. N. |
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| 19.05.2021 | Hannes Leeb (University of Vienna) |
| A (tight) upper bound for the length of confidence intervals with conditional coverage We show that two popular selective inference procedures, namely data carving (Fithian et al., 2017) and selection with a randomized response (Tian et al., 2018b), when combined with the polyhedral method (Lee et al., 2016), result in confidence intervals whose length is bounded. This contrasts results for confidence intervals based on the polyhedral method alone, whose expected length is typically infinite (Kivaranovic and Leeb, 2020). Moreover, we show that these two procedures always dominate corresponding sample-splitting methods in terms of interval length. |
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| 26.05.2021 | Hans-Georg Müller (UC Davis) |
| exceptionally at 9 a.m.! | Functional models for time-varying random objects In recent years, samples of random objects and time-varying object data such as time-varying distributions or networks that are not in a vector space have become increasingly prevalent. Such data can be viewed as elements of a general metric space that lacks local or global linear structure. Common approaches that have been used with great success for the analysis of functional data, such as functional principal component analysis, are therefore not applicable. The concept of metric covariance makes it possible to define a metric auto-covariance function for a sample of random curves that take values in a general metric space and it can be shown to be non-negative definite when the squared semi-metric of the underlying space is of negative type. Then the eigenfunctions of the linear operator with the auto-covariance function as kernel can be used as building blocks for an object functional principal component analysis, which includes real-valued Frechet scores and metric-space valued object functional principal components. Sample based estimates of these quantities are shown to be asymptotically consistent and are illustrated with various data. (Joint work with Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.) |
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| 16.06.2021 | Irène Gijbels (KU Leuven) |
| exceptionally at 12:30 p.m.! | Extremiles and extremile regression Quantiles and expectiles of a distribution are found to be useful descriptors of its tail in the same way as the median and mean are related to its central behavior. In this talk we discuss an alternative class to expectiles, called extremiles. The new class is motivated via several angles, which reveals its speci c merits and strengths. Extremiles suggest better capability of tting both location and spread in data points and provide an appropriate theory that better displays the interesting features of long-tailed distributions. We brie y discuss estimation of extremiles. A large part of the talk will be on regression extremiles, which thus de ne a least squares analogue of regression quantiles.We discuss estimation of conditional extremiles, in which we rely on local linear (least squares) checkfunction minimization. An asymptotic normality result for the estimators is established. Attention also goes to extending extremile regression far into the tails of heavy-tailed distributions. For this purpose extrapolated estimators are constructed and their asymptotic theory is developed. Applications to real data illustrate how extremiles and related tools can be used in practice.) |
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| 07.07.2021 | Victor Panaretos (EPFL Lausanne) |
| Testing for the rank of a covariance operator (online talk) How can we discern whether the covariance operator of a stochastic process is of reduced rank, and if so, what its precise rank is? And how can we do so at a given level of con dence? This question is central to a great deal of methods for functional data, which require low-dimensional representations whether by functional PCA or other methods. The difficulty is that the determination is to be made on the basis of i.i.d. replications of the process observed discretely and with measurement error contamination. This adds a ridge to the empirical covariance, obfuscating the underlying dimension. We describe a matrix-completion inspired test statistic that circumvents this issue by measuring the best possible least square fit of the empirical covariance's off -diagonal elements, optimised over covariances of given nite rank. For a fixed grid of sufficiently large size, we determine the statistic's asymptotic null distribution as the number of replications grows. We then use it to construct a bootstrap implementation of a stepwise testing procedure controlling the family-wise error rate corresponding to the collection of hypotheses formalising the question at hand. Under minimal regularity assumptions we prove that the procedure is consistent and that its bootstrap implementation is valid. The procedure circumvents smoothing and associated smoothing parameters, is indi fferent to measurement error heteroskedasticity, and does not assume a low-noise regime. (Based on joint work with Anirvan Chakraborty.) |
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last reviewed: June 2, 2021 by Christine Schneider