The extremes of a stationary time series typically occur in clusters. A primary measure for this phenomenon is the extremal index, representing the reciprocal of the expected cluster size. Both disjoint and sliding blocks estimator for the extremal index are analyzed in detail. In contrast to many competitors, the estimators only depend on the choice of one parameter sequence. We derive an asymptotic expansion, prove asymptotic normality and show consistency of an estimator…
Let $\{Z_{ij}\}$ be independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with $EZ_{ij}=0$, $E\vert Z_{ij}\vert^{2}=1$ and $E\vert Z_{ij}\vert^{4}<\infty$. Define linear processes $Y_{tj}=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}b_{k}Z_{t-k,j}$ with $\sum_{i=0}^{\infty}\vert b_{i}\vert <\infty$. Consider a $p$-dimensional time series model of the form $\mathbf{x}_{t}=\boldsymbol{\Pi} \mathbf{x}_{t-1}+\Sigma^{1/2}\mathbf{y}_{t},\ 1\leq t\leq T$ with $\mathbf{y}_{t}=(Y_{t1},\ldots,Y_{tp})'$…
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan · Hok Kan Ling · Tony Sit · Sheung Chi Phillip Yam·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
多样本有偏抽样模型下的单调密度估计AI 解读
We study the nonparametric estimation of a decreasing density function $g_{0}$ in a general $s$-sample biased sampling model with weight (or bias) functions $w_{i}$ for $i=1,\ldots,s$. The determination of the monotone maximum likelihood estimator $\hat{g}_{n}$ and its asymptotic distribution, except for the case when $s=1$, has been long missing in the literature due to certain nonstandard structures of the likelihood function, such as nonseparability and a lack of strictly…
We extend the principal component analysis (PCA) to second-order stationary vector time series in the sense that we seek for a contemporaneous linear transformation for a $p$-variate time series such that the transformed series is segmented into several lower-dimensional subseries, and those subseries are uncorrelated with each other both contemporaneously and serially. Therefore, those lower-dimensional series can be analyzed separately as far as the linear dynamic…
Rajarshi Mukherjee · Sumit Mukherjee · Ming Yuan·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
Ising 模型下针对稀疏备择的全局检验AI 解读
In this paper, we study the effect of dependence on detecting sparse signals. In particular, we focus on global testing against sparse alternatives for the means of binary outcomes following an Ising model, and establish how the interplay between the strength and sparsity of a signal determines its detectability under various notions of dependence. The profound impact of dependence is best illustrated under the Curie–Weiss model where we observe the effect of a…
Local Asymptotic Normality (LAN) property for fractional Gaussian noise under high-frequency observations is proved with nondiagonal rate matrices depending on the parameter to be estimated. In contrast to the LAN families in the literature, nondiagonal rate matrices are inevitable. As consequences of the LAN property, a maximum likelihood sequence of estimators is shown to be asymptotically efficient and the likelihood ratio test on the Hurst parameter is shown to be an…
Guanghui Wang · Changliang Zou · Guosheng Yin·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
大量类别多项数据的变点检测AI 解读
We consider a sequence of multinomial data for which the probabilities associated with the categories are subject to abrupt changes of unknown magnitudes at unknown locations. When the number of categories is comparable to or even larger than the number of subjects allocated to these categories, conventional methods such as the classical Pearson’s chi-squared test and the deviance test may not work well. Motivated by high-dimensional homogeneity tests, we propose a novel…
For sequences of random backward nested subspaces as occur, say, in dimension reduction for manifold or stratified space valued data, asymptotic results are derived. In fact, we formulate our results more generally for backward nested families of descriptors (BNFD). Under rather general conditions, asymptotic strong consistency holds. Under additional, still rather general hypotheses, among them existence of a.s. local twice differentiable charts, asymptotic joint normality…
Wen-Xin Zhou · Koushiki Bose · Jianqing Fan · Han Liu·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
稳健M估计的新视角:有限样本理论与依赖调整多重检验AI 解读
(1973) 799-821], robust alternatives to the method of least squares are sorely needed. To achieve robustness against heavy-tailed sampling distributions, we revisit the Huber estimator from a new perspective by letting the tuning parameter involved diverge with the sample size. In this paper, we develop nonasymptotic concentration results for such an adaptive Huber estimator, namely, the Huber estimator with the tuning parameter adapted to sample size, dimension, and the…
Under the potential outcomes framework, we propose a randomization based estimation procedure for causal inference from split-plot designs, with special emphasis on $2^{2}$ designs that naturally arise in many social, behavioral and biomedical experiments. Point estimators of factorial effects are obtained and their sampling variances are derived in closed form as linear combinations of the between- and within-group covariances of the potential outcomes. Results are compared…
Cristina Butucea · Mohamed Ndaoud · Natalia A. Stepanova · Alexandre B. Tsybakov·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
We derive nonasymptotic bounds for the minimax risk of variable selection under expected Hamming loss in the Gaussian mean model in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ for classes of at most $s$-sparse vectors separated from 0 by a constant $a>0$. In some cases, we get exact expressions for the nonasymptotic minimax risk as a function of $d,s,a$ and find explicitly the minimax selectors. These results are extended to dependent or non-Gaussian observations and to the problem of crowdsourcing.…
Amelia Perry · Alexander S. Wein · Afonso S. Bandeira · Ankur Moitra·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
PCA 的最优性与次优性之一:尖峰随机矩阵模型AI 解读
A central problem of random matrix theory is to understand the eigenvalues of spiked random matrix models, introduced by Johnstone, in which a prominent eigenvector (or “spike”) is planted into a random matrix. These distributions form natural statistical models for principal component analysis (PCA) problems throughout the sciences. Baik, Ben Arous and Péché showed that the spiked Wishart ensemble exhibits a sharp phase transition asymptotically: when the spike strength is…
We prove a central limit theorem for the components of the eigenvectors corresponding to the $d$ largest eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix of a finite dimensional random dot product graph. As a corollary, we show that for stochastic blockmodel graphs, the rows of the spectral embedding of the normalized Laplacian converge to multivariate normals and, furthermore, the mean and the covariance matrix of each row are functions of the associated vertex’s block…
Chao Gao · Zongming Ma · Anderson Y. Zhang · Harrison H. Zhou·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 46(5)·The Annals of Statistics已编入正刊
度修正块模型中的社区检测AI 解读
Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The present paper studies community detection in Degree-Corrected Block Models (DCBMs). We first derive asymptotic minimax risks of the problem for a misclassification proportion loss under appropriate conditions. The minimax risks are shown…
Covariance matrix estimation is one of the most important problems in statistics. To accommodate the complexity of modern datasets, it is desired to have estimation procedures that not only can incorporate the structural assumptions of covariance matrices, but are also robust to outliers from arbitrary sources. In this paper, we define a new concept called matrix depth and then propose a robust covariance matrix estimator by maximizing the empirical depth function. The…
We develop tests for the presence of deterministic seasonal behaviour and seasonal mean shifts in a seasonally observed univariate time series. These tests are designed to be asymptotically robust to the order of integration of the series at both the zero and seasonal frequencies. Motivated by the approach of Hylleberg, Engle, Granger and Yoo, we base our approach on linear filters of the data that remove any potential unit roots at the frequencies not associated with the…
Hans van Kippersluis · Cornelius A. Rietveld·刊期 2018-10-01 · 卷 21(3)·The Econometrics Journal已编入正刊
超越“近似外生”:工具变量排除限制的敏感性分析AI 解读
We synthesize two recent advances in the literature on instrumental variable (IV) estimation that test and relax the exclusion restriction. Our approach first estimates the direct effect of the IV on the outcome in a subsample for which the IV does not affect the treatment variable. Subsequently, this estimate for the direct effect is used as input for the plausibly exogenous method developed by Conley, Hansen and Rossi. This two‐step procedure provides a novel and informed…
Yuying Sun · Ai Han · Yongmiao Hong · Shouyang Wang·刊期 2018-10 · 卷 206(2)·Journal of Econometrics已编入正刊
区间值时间序列的门限自回归模型AI 解读
Modeling and forecasting symbolic data, especially interval-valued time series (ITS) data, has received considerable attention in statistics and related fields. The core of available methods on ITS analysis is based on various applications of conventional linear modeling. However, few works have considered possible nonlinearities in ITS data. In this paper, we propose a new class of threshold autoregressive interval (TARI) models for ITS data. By matching the interval model…
The multiplication of individual specific effects, ▪ and time-specific effects, ▪ provides a more general formulation than the traditionally used additive form to capture the unobserved heterogeneity in panel data modeling. It is also a useful approach for dimension reduction for modeling cross-section dependence. However, ▪ and ▪ are unobservable. We explore the implications for econometric modeling under various formulations of the interactive effects models and suggest a…
This paper estimates the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth by proposing a new semiparametric quantile panel data model with correlated random effects, in which some of the coefficients are allowed to depend on some smooth economic variables while other coefficients remain constant. A three-stage estimation procedure is proposed to estimate both constant and functional coefficients and their asymptotic properties are investigated. A simple and easily…
Bryan S. Graham · Jinyong Hahn · Alexandre Poirier · James L. Powell·刊期 2018-10 · 卷 206(2)·Journal of Econometrics已编入正刊
分位数相关随机系数面板数据模型AI 解读
We propose a generalization of the linear quantile regression model to accommodate possibilities afforded by panel data. Specifically, we extend the correlated random coefficients representation of linear quantile regression (e.g., Koenker, 2005; Section 2.6). We show that panel data allows the econometrician to (i) introduce dependence between the regressors and the random coefficients and (ii) weaken the assumption of comonotonicity across them (i.e., to enrich the…
We propose omnibus tests for symmetry of the conditional distribution of a time series process about a nonparametric regression function. The test statistic is a weighted version of the integrated squared difference between the restricted and unrestricted estimators of the joint characteristic function of nonparametric residuals and explanatory variables, whose critical values are estimated with the assistance of a bootstrap technique. The test is sensitive to local…
This paper provides a numerical derivative based Delta method that complements the recent work by Fang and Santos (2014) and also generalizes a previous insight by Song (2014). We show that for an appropriately chosen sequence of step sizes, the numerical derivative based Delta method provides consistent inference for functions of parameters that are only directionally differentiable. Additionally, it provides uniformly valid inference for certain convex and Lipschitz…
Factor models have been widely used in practice. However, an undesirable feature of a high dimensional factor model is that the model has too many parameters. An effective way to address this issue, proposed in a seminar work by Tsai and Tsay (2010) is to decompose the loadings matrix by a high-dimensional known matrix multiplying with a low-dimensional unknown matrix, which Tsai and Tsay (2010) name the constrained factor models. This paper investigates the estimation and…
Let {Zij} be independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with EZij=0, E∣Zij∣2=1 and E∣Zij∣4<∞. Define linear processes Ytj=∑k=0∞bkZt−k,j with ∑i=0∞∣bi∣<∞. Consider a p-dimensional time series model of the form xt=Πxt−1+Σ1/2yt,1≤t≤T with yt=(Yt1,…,Ytp)′…
Estimation of a monotone density in s-sample biased sampling models
We study the nonparametric estimation of a decreasing density function g0 in a general s-sample biased sampling model with weight (or bias) functions wi for i=1,…,s. The determination of the monotone maximum likelihood estimator g^n and its asymptotic distribution, except for the case when s=1, has been long missing in the literature due to certain nonstandard structures of the likelihood function, such as nonseparability and a lack of strictly…
We extend the principal component analysis (PCA) to second-order stationary vector time series in the sense that we seek for a contemporaneous linear transformation for a p-variate time series such that the transformed series is segmented into several lower-dimensional subseries, and those subseries are uncorrelated with each other both contemporaneously and serially. Therefore, those lower-dimensional series can be analyzed separately as far as the linear dynamic…
A new perspective on robust M-estimation: Finite sample theory and applications to dependence-adjusted multiple testing
Under the potential outcomes framework, we propose a randomization based estimation procedure for causal inference from split-plot designs, with special emphasis on 22 designs that naturally arise in many social, behavioral and biomedical experiments. Point estimators of factorial effects are obtained and their sampling variances are derived in closed form as linear combinations of the between- and within-group covariances of the potential outcomes. Results are compared…
We derive nonasymptotic bounds for the minimax risk of variable selection under expected Hamming loss in the Gaussian mean model in Rd for classes of at most s-sparse vectors separated from 0 by a constant a>0. In some cases, we get exact expressions for the nonasymptotic minimax risk as a function of d,s,a and find explicitly the minimax selectors. These results are extended to dependent or non-Gaussian observations and to the problem of crowdsourcing.…
We prove a central limit theorem for the components of the eigenvectors corresponding to the d largest eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian matrix of a finite dimensional random dot product graph. As a corollary, we show that for stochastic blockmodel graphs, the rows of the spectral embedding of the normalized Laplacian converge to multivariate normals and, furthermore, the mean and the covariance matrix of each row are functions of the associated vertex’s block…