2 papers
math.ST2021
Estimation of the Global Mode of a Density: Minimaxity, Adaptation, and Computational Complexity
Ery Arias-Castro, Wanli Qiao, Lin Zheng
We consider the estimation of the global mode of a density under some decay rate condition around the global mode. We show that the maximum of a histogram, with proper choice of ba…
math.ST2020
Template Matching with Ranks
Ery Arias-Castro, Lin Zheng
We consider the problem of matching a template to a noisy signal. Motivated by some recent proposals in the signal processing literature, we suggest a rank-based method and study i…