About the best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) and associated restrictions. (Sobre la construcción del mejor predictor lineal insesgado (BLUP) y restricciones asociadas.)
About the density of spectral measure of the two-dimensional SaS random vector
In this paper, we consider a symmetric α-stable p-sub-stable two-dimensional random vector. Our purpose is to show when the function is a characteristic function of such a vector for some p and α. The solution of this problem we can find in [3], in the language of isometric embeddings of Banach spaces. Our proof is based on simple properties of stable distributions and some characterization given in [4].
About the history of teaching probability theory and statistics. (Sur l'histoire de l'enseignement des probabilités et des statistiques.)
About the maximum information and maximum likelihood principles
Neural networks with radial basis functions are considered, and the Shannon information in their output concerning input. The role of information- preserving input transformations is discussed when the network is specified by the maximum information principle and by the maximum likelihood principle. A transformation is found which simplifies the input structure in the sense that it minimizes the entropy in the class of all information-preserving transformations. Such transformation need not be unique...
ABSTRACT - Models with a Low Nonlinearity.
ABSTRACT - Procedures for Epidemic Alternatives.
ABSTRACT - Some Tests on Exponential Populations.
Accelerated life models when the stress is not constant
Accelerated Monte Carlo estimation of exceedance probabilities under monotonicity constraints
The problem of estimating the probability is considered when represents a multivariate stochastic input of a monotonic function . First, a heuristic method to bound , originally proposed by de Rocquigny (2009), is formally described, involving a specialized design of numerical experiments. Then a statistical estimation of is considered based on a sequential stochastic exploration of the input space. A maximum likelihood estimator of build from successive dependent Bernoulli data is defined...
Accuracies in the theory of logistic models.
Accuracy of Proportion Estimators: a Simple Rule.
Accurate Test Limits Under Nonnormal Measurement Error.
Acotación del decrecimiento absoluto del error cuadrático medio del estimador insesgado de la diversidad: un criterio de elección del tamaño muestral.
Adaptive biased-coin designs for clinical trials with several treatments
Adaptive designs are used in phase III clinical trials for skewing the allocation pattern towards the better treatments. We use optimum design theory to provide a skewed biased-coin procedure for sequential designs with continuous responses. The skewed designs are used to provide adaptive designs, the performance of which is studied numerically for designs with three treatments. Important properties are loss and the proportion of allocation to inferior treatments. Regularisation to provide consistent...
Adaptive control for discrete-time Markov processes with unbounded costs: Discounted criterion
We study the adaptive control problem for discrete-time Markov control processes with Borel state and action spaces and possibly unbounded one-stage costs. The processes are given by recurrent equations with i.i.d. -valued random vectors whose density is unknown. Assuming observability of we propose the procedure of statistical estimation of that allows us to prove discounted asymptotic optimality of two types of adaptive policies used early for the processes with bounded costs.
Adaptive control for sequential design
The optimal experiment for estimating the parameters of a nonlinear regression model usually depends on the value of these parameters, hence the problem of designing experiments that are robust with respect to parameter uncertainty. Sequential designpermits to adapt the experiment to the value of the parameters, and can thus be considered as a robust design procedure. By designing theexperiments sequentially, one introduces a feedback of information, and thus dynamics, into the design procedure....
Adaptive Dantzig density estimation
The aim of this paper is to build an estimate of an unknown density as a linear combination of functions of a dictionary. Inspired by Candès and Tao’s approach, we propose a minimization of the ℓ1-norm of the coefficients in the linear combination under an adaptive Dantzig constraint coming from sharp concentration inequalities. This allows to consider a wide class of dictionaries. Under local or global structure assumptions, oracle inequalities are derived. These theoretical results are transposed...
Adaptive density estimation for clustering with gaussian mixtures
Gaussian mixture models are widely used to study clustering problems. These model-based clustering methods require an accurate estimation of the unknown data density by Gaussian mixtures. In Maugis and Michel (2009), a penalized maximum likelihood estimator is proposed for automatically selecting the number of mixture components. In the present paper, a collection of univariate densities whose logarithm is locally β-Hölder with moment and tail conditions are considered. We show that this penalized...
Adaptive density estimation under weak dependence
Assume that (Xt)t∈Z is a real valued time series admitting a common marginal density f with respect to Lebesgue's measure. [Donoho et al. Ann. Stat.24 (1996) 508–539] propose near-minimax estimators based on thresholding wavelets to estimate f on a compact set in an independent and identically distributed setting. The aim of the present work is to extend these results to general weak dependent contexts. Weak dependence assumptions are expressed as decreasing bounds of covariance terms and are...
Adaptive estimation in linear regression model. II. Asymptotic normality