{"title":"A simple bootstrap method for large entropy unequal probability sampling designs","authors":"Yves Tillé","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose a simple bootstrap method for large entropy unequal probability sampling designs for finite populations. The method belongs to the class of bootstrap techniques that generate replication weights directly for the sampled units. It produces integer replication weights and is applicable to both equal and unequal probability designs characterized by high entropy, such as randomized systematic, pivotal, and maximum entropy designs. Our approach relies on the Dirichlet-Multinomial distribution to generate bootstrap samples while ensuring desirable statistical properties. We provide an efficient implementation in <span>R</span> and validate the method through simulations using real-world data. Results show that the proposed bootstrap estimator performs comparably to established variance estimation techniques while offering greater flexibility for non-linear estimators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simplified condition for quantile regression","authors":"Liang Peng , Yongcheng Qi","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Quantile regression is effective in modeling and inferring the conditional quantile given some predictors and has become popular in risk management due to wide applications of quantile-based risk measures. When forecasting risk for economic and financial variables, quantile regression has to account for heteroscedasticity, which raises the question of whether the identification condition on residuals in quantile regression is equivalent to one independent of heteroscedasticity. In this paper, we present some identification conditions under three probability models and use them to establish simplified conditions in quantile regression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143899658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inference for generalized additive mixed models via penalized marginal likelihood","authors":"Alex Stringer","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Laplace approximation is sometimes not sufficiently accurate for smoothing parameter estimation in generalized additive mixed models. A novel estimation strategy is proposed that solves this problem and leads to estimates exhibiting the correct statistical properties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143888241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exact simulation of the Marchenko–Pastur distribution","authors":"Luc Devroye","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Marchenko–Pastur law (Marchenko and Pastur, 1967) describes the limit law of eigenvalues of large rectangular matrices. We give two efficient algorithms for simulating random variables from this distribution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143881645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On reverse inequalities for Besov integral probability metrics between smooth densities","authors":"Jeongjik Lee, Minwoo Chae","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For smooth probability densities, we prove certain reverse inequalities between Besov integral probability metrics with different orders of smoothness. Our results provide a substantial generalization and improvement of the existing results in the literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A note on the long time behavior of the elephant random walk with stops","authors":"Tatsuya Akimoto , Masato Takei , Keisuke Taniguchi","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110436","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the long time behavior of the elephant random walk with stops, introduced by Kumar, Harbola and Lindenberg (2010), and establish the phase transition of the number of visited points up to time <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span>, and the correlation between the position at time <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> and the number of moves up to time <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143864408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limit theorems for a critical branching process with immigration at zero in a random environment","authors":"Yinxuan Zhao, Mei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110435","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we study a critical branching process with immigration at zero in a random environment <span><math><mi>Z</mi></math></span>, where the immigration is allowed entering a generation iff the previous generation is empty. Firstly, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of the survival probability at generation <span><math><mi>n</mi></math></span> of <span><math><mover><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>̃</mo></mrow></mover></math></span>, a critical branching process in a random environment with random initial number of particles. Then, the convergence rate of the transition probabilities <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>,</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></msubsup></math></span> (<span><math><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></math></span>) of <span><math><mi>Z</mi></math></span> are obtained, which can be compared with the corresponding results for non-random case in literatures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preferential attachment with choice-based edge step","authors":"Y.A. Malyshkin","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the asymptotic behavior of the maximum degree in the preferential attachment model with a choice-based edge step. We add vertex type to the model and prove, among others types of behavior, the effect of condensation on multiple vertices with different types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approximate formulas for renewal-reward process with dependent components and normally distributed interference of chance","authors":"Aynura Poladova , Salih Tekin , Tahir Khaniyev","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study a modification of renewal-reward process with dependent components and normally distributed interference of chance are investigated. The approximate formulas for the ergodic distribution of the process and its moments are proposed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"224 ","pages":"Article 110439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complete convergence with regularly varying moments and norming constants","authors":"George Stoica , Deli Li","doi":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spl.2025.110434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We prove an extension of the Heyde–Rohatgi theorem on complete convergence of partial sums of i.i.d. random variables with general regularly varying moments and norming constants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49475,"journal":{"name":"Statistics & Probability Letters","volume":"223 ","pages":"Article 110434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143844101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}