Construction of optimal tests for symmetry on the torus and their quantitative error bounds
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| author | Anastasiou, Andreas Ley, Christophe Loizidou, Sophia |
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| contents | In this paper, we develop optimal tests for symmetry on the hyper-dimensional torus, leveraging Le Cam's methodology. We address both scenarios where the center of symmetry is known and where it is unknown. These tests are not only valid under a given parametric hypothesis but also under a very broad class of symmetric distributions. The asymptotic behavior of the proposed tests is studied both under the null hypothesis and local alternatives, and we derive quantitative bounds on the distributional distance between the exact (unknown) distribution of the test statistic and its asymptotic counterpart using Stein's method. The finite-sample performance of the tests is evaluated through simulation studies, and their practical utility is demonstrated via an application to protein folding data. Additionally, we establish a broadly applicable result on the quadratic mean differentiability of functions, a key property underpinning the use of Le Cam's approach. |
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| spellingShingle | Construction of optimal tests for symmetry on the torus and their quantitative error bounds Anastasiou, Andreas Ley, Christophe Loizidou, Sophia Statistics Theory 62H15, 62G35, 62H11 In this paper, we develop optimal tests for symmetry on the hyper-dimensional torus, leveraging Le Cam's methodology. We address both scenarios where the center of symmetry is known and where it is unknown. These tests are not only valid under a given parametric hypothesis but also under a very broad class of symmetric distributions. The asymptotic behavior of the proposed tests is studied both under the null hypothesis and local alternatives, and we derive quantitative bounds on the distributional distance between the exact (unknown) distribution of the test statistic and its asymptotic counterpart using Stein's method. The finite-sample performance of the tests is evaluated through simulation studies, and their practical utility is demonstrated via an application to protein folding data. Additionally, we establish a broadly applicable result on the quadratic mean differentiability of functions, a key property underpinning the use of Le Cam's approach. |
| title | Construction of optimal tests for symmetry on the torus and their quantitative error bounds |
| topic | Statistics Theory 62H15, 62G35, 62H11 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06055 |