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Main Authors: Brück, Florian, Reimoser, Veronika, Baier, Fabian
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22792
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author Brück, Florian
Reimoser, Veronika
Baier, Fabian
author_facet Brück, Florian
Reimoser, Veronika
Baier, Fabian
contents This paper formally derives the asymptotic distribution of a goodness-of-fit test based on the Kernel Stein Discrepancy introduced in (Oscar Key et al., "Composite Goodness-of-fit Tests with Kernels", Journal of Machine Learning Research 26.51 (2025), pp. 1-60). The test enables the simultaneous estimation of the optimal parameter within a parametric family of candidate models. Its asymptotic distribution is shown to be a weighted sum of infinitely many $χ^2$-distributed random variables plus an additional disturbance term, which is due to the parameter estimation. Further, we provide a general framework to bootstrap degenerate parameter-dependent $U$-statistics and use it to derive a new Kernel Stein Discrepancy composite goodness-of-fit test.
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spellingShingle Composite goodness-of-fit test with the Kernel Stein Discrepancy and a bootstrap for degenerate U-statistics with estimated parameters
Brück, Florian
Reimoser, Veronika
Baier, Fabian
Statistics Theory
This paper formally derives the asymptotic distribution of a goodness-of-fit test based on the Kernel Stein Discrepancy introduced in (Oscar Key et al., "Composite Goodness-of-fit Tests with Kernels", Journal of Machine Learning Research 26.51 (2025), pp. 1-60). The test enables the simultaneous estimation of the optimal parameter within a parametric family of candidate models. Its asymptotic distribution is shown to be a weighted sum of infinitely many $χ^2$-distributed random variables plus an additional disturbance term, which is due to the parameter estimation. Further, we provide a general framework to bootstrap degenerate parameter-dependent $U$-statistics and use it to derive a new Kernel Stein Discrepancy composite goodness-of-fit test.
title Composite goodness-of-fit test with the Kernel Stein Discrepancy and a bootstrap for degenerate U-statistics with estimated parameters
topic Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22792