Statistical inference for multiple change-point models |
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Authors: | Wu Wang Xuming He Zhongyi Zhu |
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Affiliation: | 1. Statistics Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia;2. Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, USA;3. Department of Statistics, Fudan University, China |
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Abstract: | In this article, we propose a new technique for constructing confidence intervals for the mean of a noisy sequence with multiple change-points. We use the weighted bootstrap to generalize the bootstrap aggregating or bagging estimator. A standard deviation formula for the bagging estimator is introduced, based on which smoothed confidence intervals are constructed. To further improve the performance of the smoothed interval for weak signals, we suggest a strategy of adaptively choosing between the percentile intervals and the smoothed intervals. A new intensity plot is proposed to visualize the pattern of the change-points. We also propose a new change-point estimator based on the intensity plot, which has superior performance in comparison with the state-of-the-art segmentation methods. The finite sample performance of the confidence intervals and the change-point estimator are evaluated through Monte Carlo studies and illustrated with a real data example. |
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Keywords: | bagging estimator binary segmentation bootstrap copy number variation multiple change-points |
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