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Time-uniform confidence bands for the CDF under nonstationarity
Paul Mineiro, Steven R. Howard
Estimation of the complete distribution of a random variable is a useful primitive for both manual and automated decision making. This problem has received extensive attention in t…
Sequential estimation of quantiles with applications to A/B-testing and best-arm identification
Steven R. Howard, Aaditya Ramdas
We propose confidence sequences -- sequences of confidence intervals which are valid uniformly over time -- for quantiles of any distribution over a complete, fully-ordered set, ba…
The uniform general signed rank test and its design sensitivity
Steven R. Howard, Samuel D. Pimentel
A sensitivity analysis in an observational study tests whether the qualitative conclusions of an analysis would change if we were to allow for the possibility of limited bias due t…
Time-uniform, nonparametric, nonasymptotic confidence sequences
Steven R. Howard, Aaditya Ramdas, Jon McAuliffe +1
A confidence sequence is a sequence of confidence intervals that is uniformly valid over an unbounded time horizon. Our work develops confidence sequences whose widths go to zero,…
Time-uniform Chernoff bounds via nonnegative supermartingales
Steven R. Howard, Aaditya Ramdas, Jon McAuliffe +1
We develop a class of exponential bounds for the probability that a martingale sequence crosses a time-dependent linear threshold. Our key insight is that it is both natural and fr…
Cataloging the Visible Universe through Bayesian Inference at Petascale
Jeffrey Regier, Kiran Pamnany, Keno Fischer +9
Astronomical catalogs derived from wide-field imaging surveys are an important tool for understanding the Universe. We construct an astronomical catalog from 55 TB of imaging data…