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math.ST2019
On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Scan Statistic for Empirical Distributions
Andrew Ying, Wen-Xin Zhou
We investigate the asymptotic behavior of several variants of the scan statistic applied to empirical distributions, which can be applied to detect the presence of an anomalous int…
math.ST2018
A Scan Procedure for Multiple Testing
Shiyun Chen, Andrew Ying, Ery Arias-Castro
In a multiple testing framework, we propose a method that identifies the interval with the highest estimated false discovery rate of P-values and rejects the corresponding null hyp…
math.ST2018
Detection of Sparse Mixtures: Higher Criticism and Scan Statistic
Ery Arias-Castro, Andrew Ying
We consider the problem of detecting a sparse mixture as studied by Ingster (1997) and Donoho and Jin (2004). We consider a wide array of base distributions. In particular, we stud…