Nonparametric estimation and U-statistics have emerged as vital tools in modern statistical analysis, offering robust alternatives to traditional parametric methods. Nonparametric techniques bypass ...

Advancing the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity requires knowing who the poor are and where they live. By reaching the most granular levels of geographic ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1987), pp. 1651-1666 (16 pages) We consider the problem of estimating parameter matrices which occur in the noncentral Wishart, noncentral multivariate ...

The unit, which is delivered online, introduces students to basic concepts and techniques such as hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation in statistics. Students will learn some simple ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper rigorously establishes that the existence of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) in high-dimensional logistic regression models ...