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Authors and titles for August 2019

[1] arXiv:1908.00099 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing for Externalities in Network Formation Using Simulation

Bryan S. Graham, Andrin Pelican

Comments: 24 pages

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Econometrics (econ.EM)

[2] arXiv:1908.00105 [pdf, other]

Title: Conditional independence testing: a predictive perspective

Marco Henrique de Almeida Inácio, Rafael Izbicki, Rafael Bassi Stern

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[3] arXiv:1908.00123 [pdf, other]

Title: Temporal orders and causal vector for physiological data analysis

Marcel Młyńczak

Comments: Accepted for the 42nd IEEE Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'20; 4 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables, 14 references

Journal-ref: Proceedings of IEEE 2020

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[4] arXiv:1908.00141 [pdf, other]

Title: Projection pursuit based generalized betas accounting for higher order co-moment effects in financial market analysis

Sven Serneels

Journal-ref: In: JSM Proceedings, Business and Economic Statistics Section, 2019. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 3009-3035

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)

[5] arXiv:1908.00225 [pdf, other]

Title: Updating Variational Bayes: Fast sequential posterior inference

Nathaniel Tomasetti, Catherine S. Forbes, Anastasios Panagiotelis

Comments: 35 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[6] arXiv:1908.00255 [pdf, other]

Title: Groundwater pumping to increase food production causes persistent groundwater drought in India

Akarsh Asoka (1), Vimal Mishra (1)

Comments: 25 pages

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[7] arXiv:1908.00307 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimum Testing Time of Software using Size-Biased Concepts

Ashis Kumar Chakraborty, Parna Chatterjee, Poulami Chakraborty, Aleena Chanda

Comments: Communicated

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[8] arXiv:1908.00325 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimating the standard error of cross-Validation-Based estimators of classifier performance

Waleed A. Yousef

Journal-ref: Waleed A. Yousef, Estimating the standard error of cross-Validation-Based estimators of classifier performance, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 146, 2021, Pages 115-125

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[9] arXiv:1908.00336 [pdf, other]

Title: Forecasting functional time series using weighted likelihood methodology

Ufuk Beyaztas, Han Lin Shang

Comments: 20 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Journal-ref: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2019, 89(16), 3046-3060

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[10] arXiv:1908.00361 [pdf, other]

Title: No-PASt-BO: Normalized Portfolio Allocation Strategy for Bayesian Optimization

Thiago de P. Vasconcelos, Daniel A. R. M. A. de Souza, César L. C. Mattos, João P. P. Gomes

Comments: 8 pages, currently under review

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[11] arXiv:1908.00414 [pdf, other]

Title: Bias Correction and Robust Inference in Semiparametric Models

Jungjun Choi, Xiye Yang

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[12] arXiv:1908.00428 [pdf, other]

Title: General proof of a limit related to AR(k) model of Statistics

Jan Vrbik

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[13] arXiv:1908.00431 [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping the uncertainty of 19th century West African slave origins using a Markov decision process model

Zachary Mullen, Ashton Wiens, Eric Vance, Henry Lovejoy

Comments: Still in progress, especially citations

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[14] arXiv:1908.00462 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigation of finite-sample properties of robust location and scale estimators

Chanseok Park, Haewon Kim, Min Wang

Comments: A change of title and many minor improvements

Journal-ref: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 2020

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[15] arXiv:1908.00477 [pdf, other]

Title: Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Approach for K-sample Tests

Yongli Sang, Xin Dang, Yichuan Zhao

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[16] arXiv:1908.00520 [pdf, other]

Title: Network Dependence Can Lead to Spurious Associations and Invalid Inference

Youjin Lee, Elizabeth L. Ogburn

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[17] arXiv:1908.00583 [pdf, other]

Title: Properties of adaptively weighted Fisher's method

Yusi Fang, Shaowu Tang, Zhiguang Huo, George C. Tseng, Yongseok Park

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[18] arXiv:1908.00618 [pdf, other]

Title: Analyzing Basket Trials under Multisource Exchangeability Assumptions

Michael J. Kane, Nan Chen, Alexander M. Kaizer, Xun Jiang, H. Amy Xia, Brian P. Hobbs

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[19] arXiv:1908.00650 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian Gamma-Negative Binomial Modeling of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data

Siamak Zamani Dadaneh, Paul de Figueiredo, Sing-Hoi Sze, Mingyuan Zhou, Xiaoning Qian

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[20] arXiv:1908.00654 [pdf, other]

Title: Teasing out the overall survival benefit with adjustment for treatment switching to other therapies

Yuqing Xu, Meijing Wu, Weili He, Qiming Liao, Yabing Mai

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[21] arXiv:1908.00659 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure retrieval from 4D-STEM: statistical analysis of potential pitfalls in high-dimensional data

Xin Li, Ondrej Dyck, Stephen Jesse, Andrew R. Lupini, Sergei V. Kalinin, Mark P. Oxley

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 100, 023308, 2019

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[22] arXiv:1908.00695 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep ReLU network approximation of functions on a manifold

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[23] arXiv:1908.00762 [pdf, other]

Title: Inferring linear and nonlinear Interaction networks using neighborhood support vector machines

Kamel Jebreen, Badih Ghattas

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[24] arXiv:1908.00780 [pdf, other]

Title: Differential Privacy for Sparse Classification Learning

Puyu Wang, Hai Zhang

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[25] arXiv:1908.00823 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalised Joint Regression for Count Data with a Focus on Modelling Football Matches

Hendrik van der Wurp, Andreas Groll, Thomas Kneib, Giampiero Marra, Rosalba Radice

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Methodology (stat.ME)

[26] arXiv:1908.00828 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast convergence of empirical barycenters in Alexandrov spaces and the Wasserstein space

Thibaut Le Gouic, Quentin Paris, Philippe Rigollet, Austin J. Stromme

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Metric Geometry (math.MG)

[27] arXiv:1908.00845 [pdf, other]

Title: Iterations of dependent random maps and exogeneity in nonlinear dynamics

Max Zinsou Debaly, Lionel Truquet

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[28] arXiv:1908.00882 [pdf, other]

Title: Population Predictive Checks

Gemma E. Moran, David M. Blei, Rajesh Ranganath

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[29] arXiv:1908.00939 [pdf, other]

Title: Functional Ratings in Sports

Bradley Lowery, Abigail Slater, Kaison Thies

Comments: 12 pages, 8 Figures, 4 tables

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[30] arXiv:1908.00947 [pdf, other]

Title: Why Simple Quadrature is just as good as Monte Carlo

Kevin Vanslette, Abdullatif Al Alsheikh, Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Computation (stat.CO)

[31] arXiv:1908.00960 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparing sleep studies in terms of the Apnea-Hypopnea Index using dedicated Shiny web application

Marcel Młyńczak, Tulio A. Valdez, Wojciech Kukwa

Comments: In review in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control; 17 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, 36 references

Journal-ref: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 2021; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1746809421002111?via%3Dihub

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[32] arXiv:1908.00963 [pdf, other]

Title: Deterministic Completion of Rectangular Matrices Using Asymmetric Ramanujan Graphs: Exact and Stable Recovery

Shantanu Prasad Burnwal, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Comments: The original submission 1908.00963 has been split into two parts. The replacement submission is Part-1 of the revised version. Part-2 can also be found on arXiv

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[33] arXiv:1908.01034 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient Truncated Statistics with Unknown Truncation

Vasilis Kontonis, Christos Tzamos, Manolis Zampetakis

Comments: to appear at 60th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2019

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation (stat.CO); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[34] arXiv:1908.01044 [pdf, other]

Title: Identifying Treatment Effects using Trimmed Means when Data are Missing Not at Random

Alex Ocampo, Heinz Schmidli, Peter Quarg, Francesca Callegari, Marcello Pagano

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[35] arXiv:1908.01113 [pdf, other]

Title: Ensemble Neural Networks (ENN): A gradient-free stochastic method

Yuntian Chen, Haibin Chang, Meng Jin, Dongxiao Zhang

Journal-ref: Neural Networks, 110, 170-185 (2019)

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)

[36] arXiv:1908.01131 [pdf, other]

Title: Random Tensors and their Normal Distributions

Changqing Xu, Kaijie Xu

Comments: 26 pages

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[37] arXiv:1908.01231 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotically consistent prediction of extremes in chaotic systems:1 stationary case

Michael LuValle

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, 7 references Plus 2 more references further explanation of the example

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)

[38] arXiv:1908.01251 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the Algorithmic Convergence of Randomized Ensembles: The Regression Setting

Miles E. Lopes, Suofei Wu, Thomas C. M. Lee

Comments: 36 pages

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[39] arXiv:1908.01252 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning Latent Factors from Diversified Projections and its Applications to Over-Estimated and Weak Factors

Jianqing Fan, Yuan Liao

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Methodology (stat.ME)

[40] arXiv:1908.01253 [pdf, other]

Title: Method of Contraction-Expansion (MOCE) for Simultaneous Inference in Linear Models

Fei Wang, Ling Zhou, Lu Tang, Peter X.-K. Song

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[41] arXiv:1908.01260 [pdf, other]

Title: Full-semiparametric-likelihood-based inference for non-ignorable missing data

Yukun Liu, Pengfei Li, Jing Qin

Comments: 45 pages

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[42] arXiv:1908.01321 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatio-Temporal RBF Neural Networks

Shujaat Khan, Jawwad Ahmad, Alishba Sadiq, Imran Naseem, Muhammad Moinuddin

Comments: Published in 2018 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Sciences and Technology (ICEEST)

Journal-ref: 2018 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Sciences and Technology (ICEEST)

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[43] arXiv:1908.01333 [pdf, other]

Title: Leveraging Random Assignment to Impute Missing Covariates in Causal Studies

Gauri Kamat, Jerome P. Reiter

Journal-ref: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2021

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[44] arXiv:1908.01408 [pdf, other]

Title: Defence Against the Modern Arts: the Curse of Statistics -- FRStat

Cedric Neumann

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[45] arXiv:1908.01411 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of Interim Adaptations in Group Sequential Designs

Sergey Tarima, Nancy Flournoy

Comments: 30 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[46] arXiv:1908.01444 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity Analysis of Treatment Effect to Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies with Survival and Competing Risks Outcomes

Rong Huang, Ronghui Xu, Parambir S. Dulai

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[47] arXiv:1908.01446 [pdf, other]

Title: Forecasting age distribution of death counts: An application to annuity pricing

Han Lin Shang, Steven Haberman

Comments: 30 pages, 4 figures, To appear in Annals of Actuarial Science

Journal-ref: Annals of Actuarial Science, 2020, 14(1), 150-169

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Methodology (stat.ME)

[48] arXiv:1908.01555 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpretable brain age prediction using linear latent variable models of functional connectivity

Ricardo Pio Monti, Alex Gibberd, Sandipan Roy, Matt Nunes, Romy Lorenz, Robert Leech, Takeshi Ogawa, Motoaki Kawanabe, Aapo Hyvarinen

Comments: 21 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[49] arXiv:1908.01583 [pdf, other]

Title: Performance of variable and function selection methods for estimating the non-linear health effects of correlated chemical mixtures: a simulation study

Nina Lazarevic, Luke D. Knibbs, Peter D. Sly, Adrian G. Barnett

Journal-ref: Stat Med (2020) 39:3947-3967

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[50] arXiv:1908.01628 [pdf, other]

Title: Regression-adjusted average treatment effect estimates in stratified randomized experiments

Hanzhong Liu, Yuehan Yang

Journal-ref: Biometrika 107 (4), 935-948, 2020

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)