On High Dimensional Behaviour of Some Two-Sample Tests Based on Ball Divergence

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Hauptverfasser: Banerjee, Bilol, Ghosh, Anil K.
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author Banerjee, Bilol
Ghosh, Anil K.
author_facet Banerjee, Bilol
Ghosh, Anil K.
contents In this article, we propose some two-sample tests based on ball divergence and investigate their high dimensional behavior. First, we study their behavior for High Dimension, Low Sample Size (HDLSS) data, and under appropriate regularity conditions, we establish their consistency in the HDLSS regime, where the dimension of the data grows to infinity while the sample sizes from the two distributions remain fixed. Further, we show that these conditions can be relaxed when the sample sizes also increase with the dimension, and in such cases, consistency can be proved even for shrinking alternatives. We use a simple example involving two normal distributions to prove that even when there are no consistent tests in the HDLSS regime, the powers of the proposed tests can converge to unity if the sample sizes increase with the dimension at an appropriate rate. This rate is obtained by establishing the minimax rate optimality of our tests over a certain class of alternatives. Several simulated and benchmark data sets are analyzed to compare the performance of these proposed tests with the state-of-the-art methods that can be used for testing the equality of two high-dimensional probability distributions.
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Banerjee, Bilol
Ghosh, Anil K.
Statistics Theory
In this article, we propose some two-sample tests based on ball divergence and investigate their high dimensional behavior. First, we study their behavior for High Dimension, Low Sample Size (HDLSS) data, and under appropriate regularity conditions, we establish their consistency in the HDLSS regime, where the dimension of the data grows to infinity while the sample sizes from the two distributions remain fixed. Further, we show that these conditions can be relaxed when the sample sizes also increase with the dimension, and in such cases, consistency can be proved even for shrinking alternatives. We use a simple example involving two normal distributions to prove that even when there are no consistent tests in the HDLSS regime, the powers of the proposed tests can converge to unity if the sample sizes increase with the dimension at an appropriate rate. This rate is obtained by establishing the minimax rate optimality of our tests over a certain class of alternatives. Several simulated and benchmark data sets are analyzed to compare the performance of these proposed tests with the state-of-the-art methods that can be used for testing the equality of two high-dimensional probability distributions.
title On High Dimensional Behaviour of Some Two-Sample Tests Based on Ball Divergence
topic Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08566