Inference on the mode of weak directional signals: a Le Cam perspective on hypothesis testing near singularities

DOI10.1214/16-AOS1468zbMath1371.62043arXiv1512.04594OpenAlexW2963990650MaRDI QIDQ2012206

Thomas Verdebout, Davy Paindaveine

Publication date: 28 July 2017

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04594

zbMATH Keywords

contiguitydirectional statisticsrobust testsLe Camconvergence of statistical experimentsrotationally symmetric distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric robustness (62G35)

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