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, functional models with not replications are investigated within the class of the elliptical distributions. Emphasis is placed on the special case of the Student-t distribution. Main results encompasses consistency and asymptotic normality of the maximum likelihood estimators. Due...

We present a new method for estimating the frontier of a multidimensional sample. The estimator is based on a kernel regression on high order moments. It is assumed that the order of the moments goes to infinity while the bandwidth of the kernel goes to zero. The consistency of the estimator is...

In this paper we define a kernel estimator of the conditional density for a left-truncated and right-censored model based on the generalized product-limit estimator of the conditional distributed function. Under the observations with multivariate covariates form a stationary α-mixing sequence,...

Consider the semiparametric regression model yi=xiTβ+g(ti)+εi for i=1,…,n, where xi∈Rp are the random design vectors, ti are the constant sequences on [0,1], β∈Rp is an unknown vector of the slop parameter, g is an unknown real-valued function defined on the closed interval [0,1], and...

In nonparametric classification and regression problems, regularized kernel methods, in particular support vector machines, attract much attention in theoretical and in applied statistics. In an abstract sense, regularized kernel methods (simply called SVMs here) can be seen as regularized...

This paper quantifies the form of the asymptotic covariance matrix of the sample autocovariances in a multivariate stationary time series—the classic Bartlett formula. Such quantification is useful in many statistical inferences involving autocovariances. While joint asymptotic normality of...

We wish to test the null hypothesis that a collection of functional observations are independent and identically distributed. Our procedure is based on the sum of the L2 norms of the empirical correlation functions. The limit distribution of the proposed test statistic is established under the...

Finite mixture models provide a mathematical basis for the statistical modeling of a wide variety of random situations, and their importance for the statistical analysis of data is well documented. This article focuses on a finite mixture regression model and develops an estimator of the...

Copulas and their corresponding densities are functions of a multivariate joint distribution and the one-dimensional marginals. Bernstein estimators have been used as smooth nonparametric estimators for copulas and copula densities. The purpose of this note is to study the asymptotic...