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most citedMAXIMA-1: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees

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stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Family-wise error rate control in Gaussian graphical model selection via Distributionally Robust Optimization

Chau Tran, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Sang-Yun Oh +1

Recently, a special case of precision matrix estimation based on a distributionally robust optimization (DRO) framework has been shown to be equivalent to the graphical lasso. From…

stat.ME2021

Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Latent Confounders

Ke Wang, Alexander Franks, Sang-Yun Oh

Gaussian Graphical models (GGM) are widely used to estimate the network structures in many applications ranging from biology to finance. In practice, data is often corrupted by lat…

q-fin.ST2020

Endogenous Representation of Asset Returns

Zhipu Zhou, Alexander Shkolnik, Sang-Yun Oh

Factor modeling of asset returns has been a dominant practice in investment science since the introduction of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Arbitrage Pricing Theor…

stat.ME2019★ 45 cited

Partial Separability and Functional Graphical Models for Multivariate Gaussian Processes

Javier Zapata, Sang-Yun Oh, Alexander Petersen

The covariance structure of multivariate functional data can be highly complex, especially if the multivariate dimension is large, making extensions of statistical methods for stan…

stat.ML2019★ 3 cited

Distributionally Robust Formulation and Model Selection for the Graphical Lasso

Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Sang-Yun Oh, Alexander Petersen

Building on a recent framework for distributionally robust optimization, we consider estimation of the inverse covariance matrix for multivariate data. We provide a novel notion of…

stat.ML2017★ 8 cited

Communication-Avoiding Optimization Methods for Distributed Massive-Scale Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation

Penporn Koanantakool, Alnur Ali, Ariful Azad +5

Across a variety of scientific disciplines, sparse inverse covariance estimation is a popular tool for capturing the underlying dependency relationships in multivariate data. Unfor…

stat.ME2016★ 5 cited

A convex framework for high-dimensional sparse Cholesky based covariance estimation

Kshitij Khare, Sang Oh, Syed Rahman +1

Covariance estimation for high-dimensional datasets is a fundamental problem in modern day statistics with numerous applications. In these high dimensional datasets, the number of…

stat.ME2016★ 7 cited

Generalized Pseudolikelihood Methods for Inverse Covariance Estimation

Alnur Ali, Kshitij Khare, Sang-Yun Oh +1

We introduce PseudoNet, a new pseudolikelihood-based estimator of the inverse covariance matrix, that has a number of useful statistical and computational properties. We show, thro…

stat.ML2016★ 19 cited

Revealing Fundamental Physics from the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment using Deep Neural Networks

Evan Racah, Seyoon Ko, Peter Sadowski +5

Experiments in particle physics produce enormous quantities of data that must be analyzed and interpreted by teams of physicists. This analysis is often exploratory, where scientis…

stat.ME2015★ 1 cited

Towards a sparse, scalable, and stably positive definite (inverse) covariance estimator

Sang-Yun Oh, Bala Rajaratnam, Joong-Ho Won

High dimensional covariance estimation and graphical models is a contemporary topic in statistics and machine learning having widespread applications. An important line of research…

stat.CO2014★ 17 cited

Optimization Methods for Sparse Pseudo-Likelihood Graphical Model Selection

Sang-Yun Oh, Onkar Dalal, Kshitij Khare +1

Sparse high dimensional graphical model selection is a popular topic in contemporary machine learning. To this end, various useful approaches have been proposed in the context of $…

stat.ME2013★ 118 cited

A convex pseudo-likelihood framework for high dimensional partial correlation estimation with convergence guarantees

Kshitij Khare, Sang-Yun Oh, Bala Rajaratnam

Sparse high dimensional graphical model selection is a topic of much interest in modern day statistics. A popular approach is to apply l1-penalties to either (1) parametric likelih…

astro-ph2000★ 518 cited

Cosmology from Maxima-1, Boomerang and COBE/DMR CMB Observations

A. H. Jaffe, P. A. R. Ade, A. Balbi +39

Recent results from BOOMERANG-98 and MAXIMA-1, taken together with COBE-DMR, provide consistent and high signal-to-noise measurements of the CMB power spectrum at spherical harmoni…

astro-ph2000★ 1.3k cited

MAXIMA-1: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees

S. Hanany, P. Ade, A. Balbi +19

We present a map and an angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first flight of MAXIMA. MAXIMA is a balloon-borne experiment with…

astro-ph1999★ 11 cited

MAXIMA: an experiment to measure temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background

A. T. Lee, P. Ade, A. Balbi +21

We describe the MAXIMA experiment, a balloon-borne measurement designed to map temperature anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over a wide range of angular scales (…