We study Hoeffding decomposable exchangeable sequences with values in a finite set D={d1,…,dK}. We provide a new combinatorial characterization of Hoeffding decomposability and use this result to show that, for every K≥3, there exists a class of neither Pólya nor i.i.d. D-valued...

In various frameworks, to assess the joint distribution of a k-dimensional random vector X=(X1,…,Xk), one selects some putative conditional distributions Q1,…,Qk. Each Qi is regarded as a possible (or putative) conditional distribution for Xi given (X1,…,Xi−1,Xi+1,…,Xk). The Qi are...

We propose a new sequential procedure to detect change in the parameters of a process X=(Xt)t∈Z belonging to a large class of causal models (such as AR(∞), ARCH(∞), TARCH(∞), or ARMA–GARCH processes). The procedure is based on a difference between the historical parameter estimator and...

Marshall and Olkin (1997)  [14] provided a general method to introduce a parameter into a family of distributions and discussed in details about the exponential and Weibull families. They have also briefly introduced the bivariate extension, although not any properties or inferential issues...

Given the values of a measurable function m:Rd→R at n arbitrarily chosen points in Rd the problem of estimating m on whole Rd is considered. Here the estimate has to be defined such that the L1 error of the estimate (with integration with respect to a fixed but unknown probability measure) is...

We address the problem of spherical deconvolution in a non-parametric statistical framework, where both the signal and the operator kernel are subject to measurement errors. After a preliminary treatment of the kernel, we apply a thresholding procedure to the signal in a second generation...

The main results imply that the probability P(Z∈A+θ) is Schur-concave/Schur-convex in (θ12,…,θk2) provided that the indicator function of a set A in Rk is so, respectively; here, θ=(θ1,…,θk)∈Rk and Z is a standard normal random vector in Rk. Moreover, it is shown that the...

In this paper, we address the problem of regression estimation in the context of a p-dimensional predictor when p is large. We propose a general model in which the regression function is a composite function. Our model consists in a nonlinear extension of the usual sufficient dimension reduction...

A multivariate extension of the bivariate class of Archimax copulas was recently proposed by Mesiar and Jágr (2013), who asked under which conditions it holds. This paper answers their question and provides a stochastic representation of multivariate Archimax copulas. A few basic properties of...

Many multiple testing procedures make use of the p-values from the individual pairs of hypothesis tests, and are valid if the p-value statistics are independent and uniformly distributed under the null hypotheses. However, it has recently been shown that these types of multiple testing...