✨ Spotlight Papers of 2025, II Semester✨ In case you missed them⤵️ 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by S. Zwanzig & R. Ahmad 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by M. Hua & G. Goh

HNY! Our Co-Editor-in-Chief @afarcome.bsky.social elected the ✨ Spotlight paper of the First semester of 2025✨ "Universal distribution of the empirical coverage in split conformal prediction" by Paulo C. Marques F. (Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Swarnadeep Datta (Indian Statistical Institute) and Monitirtha Dey (@unibremen.bsky.social) propose a simple single-step multiple testing procedure that asymptotically controls the FWER at the desired level exactly under the equicorrelated multivariate Gaussian setup. doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...

@luisantonioarteaga.bsky.social & JM Rodriguez-Poo (Univ de Cantabria) propose a new test to detect structural changes in economic models with endogenous variables and time dependence using nonparametric techniques that avoid the curse of dimensionality. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

C Scricciolo (Univ of Verona) establishes minimax-optimal convergence rates in the 1-Wasserstein metric for a kernel-type estimator of the CDF + proposes a data-driven adaptive estimation procedure to select the optimal bandwidth for α-Hölder mixing densities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Manabu Asai (Soka University) utilizes the Bartlett decomposition of a singular Wishart variable to derive the log-expectation and proposes a reparameterization for MLE to separately estimate the scale matrix and the degrees-of-freedom parameter. ⤵️⤵️⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Marco Geraci (Sapienza University of Rome) explores an easy-to-implement maximum likelihood estimation strategy based on Gaussian quadrature for the scale-mixture representation of the generalized Laplace distribution and its projection onto the circle. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Continuous monitoring is gaining popularity for its ability to reduce sample sizes and reach earlier conclusions. Long-Hao Xu and Tim Friede (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen) investigate the theoretical properties of blinded continuous monitoring. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨New letter alert 🚨 Hang Zou (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) and Yunlu Jiang (Jinan University) propose a communication-efficient distributed robust variable selection method using discounted exponential regression for massive data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yves Tillé (Uni of Neuchâtel) introduces a 2-phase procedure for balanced random sample selection. ✈️Flight phase: transform the vector of inclusion probabilities into one with components close to 0 or 1, 🛬 Landing phase: Complete the selection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In our November issue: S. Zwanzig & R. Ahmad (Uppsala University) show that in a linear model setting, the minimization problem in variational inference pertains to approximation error under a suitable prior, and discuss the choice of prior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Swagatam Das (Indian Statistical Institute) proposes a free probabilistic framework to analyze Transformer-based LLMs, emphasizing the role of non-commutative random variables in modeling word order and contextual structure. In our November issue⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Eunji Lim (Adelphi University) proposes a penalized estimator to address boundary overfitting in isotonic regression. The estimator achieves strong uniform consistency and ensures consistency at domain boundaries. In our November issue⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There are a few options for clustering mixed-type data. Eman Alamer (McMaster University), Michael Gallaugher (Baylor University), and Paul McNicholas (McMaster University) propose a model-based clustering approach to help address this gap. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@alecasa.bsky.social and Davide Ferrari (@unibz.bsky.social) tackle the problem of selecting the number of components in Gaussian mixture models, where traditional single-model criteria like BIC often overlook model selection uncertainty. Learn more⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seonghyun Jeong (Yonsei University) derives a desirable test function that establishes a framework for testing-based posterior contraction theory in Gaussian models with unknown variance. Read the letter in our November issue⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lu Mao (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) approximates win-loss statistics using only the marginal survival curves typically reported in clinical trials, enabling comparative interpretation of two-tiered outcomes even when joint data are unavailable #meta-analysis 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hervé Cardot (Université Bourgogne Europe) and Antonio Musolesi (University of Ferrara and SEEDS) propose a zero-inflated model for the temporal variation of the variable of interest in panel data analysis. Click below to learn more⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Ghoshal and JT Chen (Bowling Green State U) propose a sequentially rejective procedure for simultaneous inference on odds ratios, which is uniformly more powerful than Holm’s procedure when testing multiple odds ratios. Read the letter in our November issue🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍂 In our September issue Yves Tillé (University of Neuchâtel) proposes a simple bootstrap method for large-entropy, unequal-probability sampling designs in finite populations. An efficient implementation in R is also provided. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍂In our September issue🍂 Masanari Kimura (University of Melbourne) develops a higher-order asymptotic analysis for the semi-hard triplet loss using the Edgeworth expansion. 🔗Click here to read the letter www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍃In our September issue🍃 The Marchenko–Pastur law describes the limit law of eigenvalues of large rectangular matrices. Luc Devroye (@lawmcgill.bsky.social) gives two efficient algorithms for simulating random variables from this distribution. Read the paper⤵️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 In our July issue 🚨 L Li (Nankai Uni), Y Yu and W Liang (Dongbei Uni of Finance and Economics), and F Zou (Zhongnan Uni of Economics and Law) study multi-attribute Gaussian copula graphical models where each node captures multidimensional variables 🔍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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