The asymptotic properties of the least squares estimator of the cusp in some nonlinear nonregular regression models is investigated via the study of the weak convergence of the least squares process generalizing earlier results in Prakasa Rao (Statist. Probab. Lett. 3 (1985) 15).

The classical theory for testing the null hypothesis that a set of canonical correlation coefficients is zero leads to a chi-square test under the assumption of multi-normality. The test has been used in the context of dimension reduction. In this paper, we study the limiting distribution of the...

In this paper, we introduce a new family of multivariate distributions as the scale mixture of the multivariate power exponential distribution introduced by Gómez et al. (Comm. Statist. Theory Methods 27(3) (1998) 589) and the inverse generalized gamma distribution. Since the resulting family...

This paper focuses on robust estimation in the structural errors-in-variables (EV) model. A new class of robust estimators, called weighted orthogonal regression estimators, is introduced. Robust estimators of the parameters of the EV model are simply derived from robust estimators of...

This paper investigates regression quantiles (RQ) for unstable autoregressive models. The uniform Bahadur representation of the RQ process is obtained. The joint asymptotic distribution of the RQ process is derived in a unified manner for all types of characteristic roots on or outside the unit...

Let X and Y be d-dimensional random vectors having elliptically symmetric distributions. Call X and Y affinely equivalent if Y has the same distribution as AX+b for some nonsingular dxd-matrix A and some . This paper studies a class of affine invariant tests for affine equivalence under certain...

We discuss the estimation of the tail index of a heavy-tailed distribution when covariate information is available. The approach followed here is based on the technique of local polynomial maximum likelihood estimation. The generalized Pareto distribution is fitted locally to exceedances over a...

In this paper, we discuss discriminant analysis for locally stationary processes, which constitute a class of non-stationary processes. Consider the case where a locally stationary process {Xt,T} belongs to one of two categories described by two hypotheses [pi]1 and [pi]2. Here T is the length...

Many applied problems require a covariance matrix estimator that is not only invertible, but also well-conditioned (that is, inverting it does not amplify estimation error). For large-dimensional covariance matrices, the usual estimator--the sample covariance matrix--is typically not...

This paper presents a method of determining joint distributions by known conditional distributions. A generalization of the Factorization Theorem is proposed. The generalized theorem is proved under the assumption that the support of unknown joint distribution may be divided into a countable...