New statistical goodness of fit techniques in noisy inhomogeneous inverse problems

A goodness-of-fit test for inhomogeneous spatial Poisson processes

We introduce a formal testing procedure to assess the goodness-of-fit of a fitted inhomogeneous spatial Poisson process model. Our method is based on a discrepancy measure function Dc(t; θ̂) that is constructed by using residuals obtained from the fitted model. We derive the asymptotic distributional properties of Dc(t; θ̂) and then develop a test statistic based on these properties. Our test sta...

Goodness-of-fit test for noisy directional data

We consider spherical data Xi noised by a random rotation εi ∈ SO(3) so that only the sample Zi = εiXi, i = 1, . . . , N is observed. We define a nonparametric test procedure to distinguish H0 : ”the density f of Xi is the uniform density f0 on the sphere” and H1 : ”‖f − f0‖2 ≥ CψN and f is in a Sobolev space with smoothness s”. For a noise density fε with smoothness index ν, we show that an ad...

Statistical modelling of network panel data: goodness of fit.

Networks of relationships between individuals influence individual and collective outcomes and are therefore of interest in social psychology, sociology, the health sciences, and other fields. We consider network panel data, a common form of longitudinal network data. In the framework of estimating functions, which includes the method of moments as well as the method of maximum likelihood, we p...

Statistical alignment: computational properties, homology testing and goodness-of-fit.

The model of insertions and deletions in biological sequences, first formulated by Thorne, Kishino, and Felsenstein in 1991 (the TKF91 model), provides a basis for performing alignment within a statistical framework. Here we investigate this model.Firstly, we show how to accelerate the statistical alignment algorithms several orders of magnitude. The main innovations are to confine likelihood c...

Goodness of Fit