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Applied and theoretical statistics: e.g. statistical inference, regression, time series, multivariate analysis, data analysis, Markov chain Monte Carlo, design of experiments.

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Rate of convergence of uniform order statistics to their expectations

For your first question, Rigollet has a series of notes(with minor typos) that dicusses basics of this kind of tail bounds. The result you mentioned in the "introduction" is actually the classic Hoeff …
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Concentration of U-statistics for exchangable distributions (and the unbounded case)

I do not think the conclusion will hold for a general exchangeable sequence. In a more general case, you have to assume that U-statistics itself are not degenerated ($w_i\neq w_j$ for $i\neq j$) and t …
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Order of independent random variables

This is too long to be a comment. But I felt it serves as a pointer. Without loss of generality we assume $X_{1},X_{2},X_{3}$ share the same image domain $[0,1]$. For a specific $\pi\in S_{3}$, the …
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Is this generalization bound proof wrong?

No, they just used sloppy notations. They omitted what we called "attainment argument". Suppose the attainment of supremum occurs at $h_{0}\in\mathcal{H}$,$$Pr\left[\sup_{h\in\mathcal{H}}\left|\wideh …
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Difference of hypoexponential distributions

$$\mathbb{P}(X-Y<t\mid X>Y) =\frac{\mathbb{P}(X-Y<t,X>Y)}{\mathbb{P}(X>Y)} =\mathbb{P}(X-Y<t)$$ since $X(\omega)>Y(\omega),\ \forall\omega\in\Omega $. $$\mathbb{P}(X-Y<t)=\int_{0}^{\infty}dy\int_{0}^ …
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Distribution of the maximum of the norm of k-averages of n i.i.d. d-dimensional random vectors

The problem can be solved if the distribution $f(\cdot)$ is in a Levy stable distribution family. In your concrete example, since the $d\dim$ normal distribution $N(\mu,I_d)$ is "additive", the exact …
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Square integrable conditional expectations as projections

No. Vector space structure is not enough, we actually need a compatible lattice structure to make things work. To apply the conditional expectation operator $E(\bullet\mid Y)$ onto the Hilbert space c …
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Largest deviations for uniform order statistics

Iosif Pinelis provided a very nice answer, however, I would like to provide a more comprehensive answer to this question. I think the title is a bit misleading because we do not actually need the orde …
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A metric stronger than total variation

I think it is just called (scaled) supremum $L_1$ norm and it is mostly studied in Bayesian nonparametric estimation literature, especially posterior consistency. The following paper investigate condi …
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Why a random variable is better described by its cumulants than by its characteristic function?

The quote actually belongs to C.G.Rota. Because cumulant sequences are closed under addition while moment sequences are not. That makes cumulant a more tractable algebraic structure altogether. Altho …
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Is there a name for this quantity between two distributions?

This is the more from decision theory, which could also be regarded as part of statistics if you regard the procedure of making a statistical decision as sort of de-randomization from a categorical vi …
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Distance of distributions of random variables, without PDF

According to your motivation, Numerical computation of $\rho$ is notoriously inaccurate and problematic, and so KL divergence or even $L^1$ distance are problematic as well. I obtain $f$ anyway, …
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Second moment of cos(x,y) for Normal x,y?

This $y = \frac{<x_1, x_2>}{\|x_1\|\|x_2\|}$ is the distribution of the $cos \theta$ where $\theta$ is known as the canonical angle/principal angle of two random vectors $x_1,x_2$. $cos\theta$ is know …
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Completeness of an exponential family

$g_\theta(x):=e^{-(\theta x-1)^2/2}=\exp(-\frac{1}{2\frac{1}{\theta^2}}[x-\frac{1}{\theta}]^2)$ is the kernel of $N(\frac{1}{\theta},\frac{1}{\theta^2})$ with density $\frac{1}{\sqrt {2\pi \frac{1}{\t …
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Order statistic of Markov chain sample path and related probabilities

Problem 1 For a general closed form expression of the joint density of order statistics, it is known intractable: A problem that is closely related to the first-passage time problem is that o …
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