Statistical limits of sparse mixture detection

DOI10.1214/22-EJS2053MaRDI QIDQ2084466

Subhodh Kotekal

Publication date: 18 October 2022

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02507

zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testingphase transitionlarge deviationshigher criticismsparse mixture detection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Large deviations (60F10)

Uses Software

• ScreenClean

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