Model checking for general linear error-in-covariables model with validation data

In this paper, model checking problem is considered for general linear model when covariables are measured with error and an independent validation data set is available. Without assuming any error model structure between the true variable and the surrogate variable, the author first apply nonparametric method to model the relationship between the true variable and the surrogate variable with the help of the validation sample. Then the author construct a score-type test statistic through model adjustment. The large sample behaviors of the score-type test statistic are investigated. It is shown that the test is consistent and can detect the alternative hypothesis close to the null hypothesis at the rate n ^−r with 0 ≤ r ≤ 1/2. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method works well.     

Testing serial correlation in semiparametric varying coefficient partially linear errors-in-variables model

The authors propose a V _{N, p} test statistic for testing finite-order serial correlation in a semiparametric varying coefficient partially linear errors-in-variables model. The test statistic is shown to have asymptotic normal distribution under the null hypothesis of no serial correlation. Some Monte Carlo experiments are conducted to examine the finite sample performance of the proposed V _{N, p} test statistic. Simulation results confirm that the proposed test performs satisfactorily in estimated size and power. This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 10871217 and 40574003; the Science and Technology Project of Chongqing Education Committee under Grant No. KJ080609; the Doctor's Start-up Research Fund under Grant No. 08-52204; and the Youth Science Research Fund of Chongqing Technology and Business University under Grant No. 0852008.     

Distance-Based Regression Analysis for Measuring Associations

Distance-based regression model, as a nonparametric multivariate method, has been widely used to detect the association between variations in a distance or dissimilarity matrix for outcomes and predictor variables of interest in genetic association studies, genomic analyses, and many other research areas. Based on it, a pseudo-F statistic which partitions the variation in distance matrices is often constructed to achieve the aim. To the best of our knowledge, the statistical properties of the pseudo-F statistic has not yet been well established in the literature. To fill this gap, the authors study the asymptotic null distribution of the pseudo-F statistic and show that it is asymptotically equivalent to a mixture of chi-squared random variables. Given that the pseudo-F test statistic has unsatisfactory power when the correlations of the response variables are large, the authors propose a square-root F-type test statistic which replaces the similarity matrix with its square root. The asymptotic null distribution of the new test statistic and power of both tests are also investigated. Simulation studies are conducted to validate the asymptotic distributions of the tests and demonstrate that the proposed test has more robust power than the pseudo-F test. Both test statistics are exemplified with a gene expression dataset for a prostate cancer pathway.

     

Test on Stochastic Block Model: Local Smoothing and Extreme Value Theory

In this paper, to obtain a consistent estimator of the number of communities, the authors present a new sequential testing procedure, based on the locally smoothed adjacency matrix and the extreme value theory. Under the null hypothesis, the test statistic converges to the type I extreme value distribution, and otherwise, it explodes fast and the divergence rate could even reach n in the strong signal case where n is the size of the network, guaranteeing high detection power. This method is simple to use and serves as an alternative approach to the novel one in Lei (2016) using random matrix theory. To detect the change of the community structure, the authors also propose a two-sample test for the stochastic block model with two observed adjacency matrices. Simulation studies justify the theory. The authors apply the proposed method to the political blog data set and find reasonable group structures.

     

Limited Memory BFGS Method for Least Squares Semidefinite Programming with Banded Structure

This work is intended to solve the least squares semidefinite program with a banded structure. A limited memory BFGS method is presented to solve this structured program of high dimension. In the algorithm, the inverse power iteration and orthogonal iteration are employed to calculate partial eigenvectors instead of full decomposition of n × n matrices. One key feature of the algorithm is that it is proved to be globally convergent under inexact gradient information. Preliminary numerical results indicate that the proposed algorithm is comparable with the inexact smoothing Newton method on some large instances of the structured problem.

     

Regression Function Comparison for Paired Data

In this paper, the regression function comparison for paired data is studied. The proposed test statistic is based on the weighted integral of characteristic function marked by the difference of responses. There are several merits of the proposed statistic. For instance, it takes a simple V-statistic form. No bandwidth is needed. No moment conditions are required for covariates. It can be applied to covariates of any fixed dimension. The asymptotic results are also developed. It is proven that n times the proposed test statistic converges to a finite limit under the null hypothesis and the test is consistent against any fixed alternatives. Local alternative hypotheses which converge to the null hypothesis at the rate of n-1/2 are also detected. A suitable Bootstrap algorithm is also proposed for the implementation of the proposed test statistic. Simulation studies are carried out to illustrate the merits of the proposed method. A real data example is also used to illustrate the proposed testing procedures.     

Detecting Change-Point via Saddlepoint Approximations

It's well-known that change-point problem is an important part of model statistical analysis. Most of the existing methods are not robust to criteria of the evaluation of change-point problem.In this article, we consider "mean-shift" problem in change-point studies. A quantile test of single quantile is proposed based on saddlepoint approximation method. In order to utilize the information at different quantile of the sequence, we further construct a "composite quantile test" to calculate the probability of every location of the sequence to be a change-point. The location of change-point can be pinpointed rather than estimated within a interval. The proposed tests make no assumptions about the functional forms of the sequence distribution and work sensitively on both large and small size samples,the case of change-point in the tails, and multiple change-points situation. The good performances of the tests are confirmed by simulations and real data analysis. The saddlepoint approximation based distribution of the test statistic that is developed in the paper is of independent interest and appealing.This finding may be of independent interest to the readers in this research area.     

Test for Heteroscedasticity in Partially Linear Regression Models

Testing heteroscedasticity determines whether the regression model can predict the dependent variable consistently across all values of the explanatory variables. Since the proposed tests could not detect heteroscedasticity in all cases, more precisely in heavy-tailed distributions, the authors established new comprehensive test statistic based on Levene's test. The authors built the asymptotic normality of the test statistic under the null hypothesis of homoscedasticity based on the recent theory of analysis of variance for the infinite factors level. The proposed test uses the residuals from a regression model fit of the mean function with Levene's test to assess homogeneity of variance. Simulation studies show that our test yields better than other methods in almost all cases even if the variance is a nonlinear function. Finally, the proposed method is implemented through a real data-set.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript> disturbance attenuation for a class of time-delay Hamiltonian systems

This paper considers the problem of L ₂-disturbance attenuation for a class of time-delay port-controlled Hamiltonian systems. A γ-dissipative inequality is established by using a proper control law and a storage function. Then based on the Razumikhin stability theorem, a sufficient condition is proposed for the asymptotically stability of the closed-loop system. Finally, the authors investigate the case that there are time-invariant uncertainties belonging to some convex bounded polytypic domain and an L ₂ disturbance attenuation control law is proposed. Study of illustrative example with simulation shows that the presented method in this paper works very well in the disturbance attenuation of time-delay Hamiltonian systems.     

OPTIMAL AND ROBUST DETECTION OF MULTIVARIATE OUTLIERS FOR ELLIPTICALLY CONTOURED DISTRIBUTION

The outlier problem for a multivariate elliptically contoured distribu-tion's random sample with mean slippage is defined and the likelihood ratio test ofthe null hypothesis,in which there are no outliers,versus the alternative hypothesis,in which some outliers are present,is derived.We show that the testing problemis invariant under a group of affine transformations and obtain the maximal in-variance which is equivalent to the likelihood ratio testing statistic.Furthermore,the non-null and null density distribution functions of the likelihood ratio testingstatistic are derived.We find that the null density distribution function of thetesting statistic is robust and the density distribution function is a monotonicallikelihood ratio function of the maximal invariance.Therefore,the likelihood ratiotest is a uniformly most powerful invariant test among the group of affine transfor-mations.In the last section,we give an example of detecting multivariate outliersin elliptically contoured distribution.     

多径环境下的无源分布式孔径雷达成像方法

研究多径环境下分布式孔径无源雷达成像方法,首先针对分布式孔径探测,给出一种新的无源雷达回波模型,该模型适用于复杂的多径散射环境,而且不需要已知发射源信息。然后研究一种基于二元假设检验的成像方法,依据最大信噪比原则构造检验统计量,该统计量依赖于空间位置信息,通过对成像区域中的每个位置进行检测,可实现空间分辨,获得成像结果。接着详细分析该方法在多径散射环境中的性能,并在模拟多径环境中采用地面数字电视信号对成像方法进行仿真实验验证。理论分析和实验结果表明,采用空间可分辨的检验统计量形成图像可以正确重建目标,并且可利用多径效应进行成像。     

Least-squares Galerkin procedure for second-order hyperbolic equations

This paper proposes the least-squares Galerkin finite element scheme to solve second-order hyperbolic equations. The convergence analysis shows that the method yields the approximate solutions with optimal accuracy in (L ²(Ω))² × L ²(Ω) norms. Moreover, the method gets the approximate solutions with second-order accuracy in time increment. A numerical example testifies the efficiency of the novel scheme.     

H ∞ filtering for continuous-time systems with pointwise time-varying delay

The problem of H_∞filtering for continuous-time systems with pointwise time-varying delay is investigated in this paper.By applying an innovation analysis in Krein space,a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an H_∞filter is derived in two methods:One is the partial differential equation approach,the other is the reorganized innovation analysis approach.The former gives a solution to the proposed H_∞filtering problem in terms of the solution of a partial differential equation with boundary conditions.The later gives an analytical solution to the proposed H_∞filtering problem in terms of the solutions of Riccati and matrix differential equations.     

A new procedure for testing normality based on the L 2 Wasserstein distance

This paper proposes a new goodness-of-fit test for normality based on the L ₂ Wasserstein distance. The authors first construct a probability through the Bootstrap resampling. Although the probability is not distributed uniformly on the interval (0, 1) under the null hypothesis, it is shown that its distribution is free from the unknown parameters, which indicates that such a probability can be taken as the test statistic. It emerges from the simulation study of power that the new test is able to better discriminate between the normal distribution and those distributions with short tails. For such alternatives, it has a substantially better power than existing tests including the Anderson-Darling test and Shapiro-Wilk test, which are two of the best tests for normality. In addition, the sensitivity analysis of tests is also investigated in the presence of moderate perturbation, which shows that the new test is a rather robust test.     

修正的KSS检验及其对中国通货膨胀率的应用

Kapetanios等^[1] 提出在指数平滑转换自回归（ESTAR）模型框架下进行单位根检验. 他们的检验是基于误差项为独立同分布的强假设下得到的,该假设在现实中很难成立. 当误差项为平稳弱相依时,该检验统计量的极限分布包含冗余参数. 通过构造修正的KSS检验,得到了不包含冗余参数的检验统计量. 蒙特卡罗模拟结果表明该修正的统计量大大减少了序列相关性带来的水平扭曲（size distortion）,且该检验统计量对于非线性平稳过程的检验功效高于PP检验. 将该检验用于中国的通货膨胀率,发现它存在着一个单位根,是非平稳过程.     

Sliding mode H∞ control for a class of uncertain nonlinear state-delayed systems

A new proportional-integral (PI) sliding surface is designed for a class of uncertain nonlinear state-delayed systems. Based on this, an adaptive sliding mode controller (ASMC) is synthesized, which guarantees the occurrence of sliding mode even when the system is undergoing parameter uncertainties and external disturbance. The resulting sliding mode has the same order as the original system, so that it becomes easy to solve the H_∞ control problem by designing a memoryless H_∞ state feedback controller. A delay-dependent sufficient condition is proposed in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which guarantees the sliding mode robust asymptotically stable and has a noise attenuation level γ in an H_∞ sense. The admissible state feedback controller can be found by solving a sequential minimization problem subject to LMI constraints by applying the cone complementary linearization method. This design scheme combines the strong robustness of the sliding mode control with the H_∞ norm performance. A numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

分布式网状被动传感器系统量测数据关联

为解决漏检、虚警、监视区目标数量未知情况下被动传感器系统量测数据关联问题提出了统计量检验及关联度极大寻优关联算法。该算法首先采用统计量检验删除不可能的候选关联,减小候选关联集,然后按关联度分层搜索得到正确关联。构建了检验统计量并给出了算法的实现步骤。仿真实验验证了关联算法的可行性。     

Solving low-density multiple subset sum problems with SVP oracle

It is well known that almost all subset sum problems with density less than 0.9408… can be solved in polynomial time with an SVP oracle that can find a shortest vector in a special lattice.In this paper,the authors show that a similar result holds for the k-multiple subset sum problem which has k subset sum problems with exactly the same solution.Specially,for the single subset sum problem(k=1),a modified lattice is introduced to make the proposed analysis much simpler and the bound for the success probability tighter than before.Moreover,some extended versions of the multiple subset sum problem are also considered.     

Inference on coefficient function for varying-coefficient partially linear model

One important model in handling the multivariate data is the varying-coemcient partially linear regression model.In this paper,the generalized likelihood ratio test is developed to test whether its coefficient functions are varying or not.It is showed that the normalized proposed test follows asymptoticallyχ~2-distribution and the Wilks phenomenon under the null hypothesis,and its asymptotic power achieves the optimal rate of the convergence for the nonparametric hypotheses testing.Some simulation studies illustrate that the test works well.     

双参数指数分布参数变点的统计推断

讨论双参数指数分布尺度参数发生变化、两个参数可能同时发生变化时，变点的统计推断问题。关于尺度参数变点问题，继续Wang和Bhatti(1998)的讨论，给出检验的渐近分布，同时也研究变点的估计问题。对于位置参数和尺度参数可能同时发生变化时，给出参数变点检验统计量，并利用随机模拟的方法给出检验的临界值。