We consider the following statistical problem: based on an i.i.d.sample of
size n of integer valued random variables with common law m, is it possible to
test whether or not the support of m is finite as n goes to infinity? This
question is in particular connected to a simple case of Tsirelson's equation,
for which it is natural to distinguish between two main configurations, the
first one leading only to laws with finite support, and the second one
including laws with infinite support.
We prove a law of large numbers and a functional central limit theorem for
multivariate Hawkes processes observed over a time interval $[0,T]$ in the
limit $T \rightarrow \infty$. We further exhibit the asymptotic behaviour of
the covariation of the increments of the components of a multivariate Hawkes
process, when the observations are imposed by a discrete scheme with mesh
$\Delta$ over $[0,T]$ up to some further time shift $\tau$.
We introduce a theoretical framework for performing statistical hypothesis
testing simultaneously over a fairly general, possibly uncountably infinite,
set of null hypotheses. This extends the standard statistical setting for
multiple hypotheses testing, which is restricted to a finite set. This work is
motivated by numerous modern applications where the observed signal is modeled
by a stochastic process over a continuum. As a measure of type I error, we
extend the concept of false discovery rate (FDR) to this setting.
We consider the problem of adaptive estimation of the regression function in
a framework where we replace ergodicity assumptions (such as independence or
mixing) by another structural assumption on the model. Namely, we propose
adaptive upper bounds for kernel estimators with data-driven bandwidth
(Lepski's selection rule) in a regression model where the noise is an increment
of martingale. It includes, as very particular cases, the usual i.i.d.
regression and auto-regressive models.
We study the convergence of the false discovery proportion (FDP) of the
Benjamini-Hochberg procedure in the Gaussian equi-correlated model, when the
correlation $\rho_m$ converges to zero as the hypothesis number $m$ grows to
infinity. By contrast with the standard convergence rate $m^{1/2}$ holding
under independence, this study shows that the FDP converges to the false
discovery rate (FDR) at rate $\{\min(m,1/\rho_m)\}^{1/2}$ in this
equi-correlated model.