Research project granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (grant code PID2023-148081NB-I00) from September 2024 until September 2027
Main researchers: Amparo Baíllo and Javier Cárcamo
Our previous project: Infinite-dimensional statistics: mathematical models and computation (2020-2024)
(*) Members of the collaboration group / Miembros del equipo de trabajo
In reverse chronological order:
Luis Alberto Rodríguez Ramírez (2024). Differentiability techniques in statistics with applications, co-supervised by J. Cárcamo and A. Cuevas.
Carlos Ramos-Carreño (2023). Machine learning with functional data: methodological advances and computational tools, co-supervised by J.L. Torrecilla and A. Suárez.
Alessandro Casa (2020). Climbing modes and exploring mixtures: a journey in density-based clustering, co-supervised by J.E. Chacón and G. Menardi.
Beatriz Bueno-Larraz (2018). On Reproducing Kernel Methods in Functional Statistics, co-supervised by J.R. Berrendero and A. Cuevas. Slides from the thesis defense presentation
José Luis Torrecilla (2015). On the Theory and Practice of Variable Selection for Functional Data, co-supervised by J.R. Berrendero and A. Cuevas. Slides from the thesis defense presentation
Alejandro Cholaquidis (2014). Técnicas de teoría geométrica de la medida en estimación de conjuntos, co-supervised by A. Cuevas and R. Fraiman. Francisco Aranda Ordaz prize awarded by Sociedad Latinoamericana de Probabilidad y Estadística. Slides from presentation in CLAPEM 2014
Pablo Monfort (2014). Theoretical and computational contributions to cluster analysis, distribution function estimation and conditional expectation calculation, co-supervised by J.E. Chacón and A. García Nogales.
Barroso, M., Alaíz, C. M., Torrecilla, J. L. and Fernández, Á.
(To appear). Functional Diffusion Maps. Statistics and
Computing.
Preprint
Cárcamo, J., Cuevas, A. and Rodríguez, L.A. (To appear). A
uniform kernel trick for high and infinite-dimensional two-sample
problems. Journal of Multivariate Analysis.
Preprint | doi
Chacón, J.E. and Tenreiro, C. (To appear). Estimation of density
functionals via cross-validation. Statistica Neerlandica.
Paper (open
access)
Baíllo, A., Cárcamo, J. and Mora-Corral, C. (2024). Tests for
almost stochastic dominance. Journal of Business & Economic
Statistics, 1-13.
Preprint | doi
Berrendero, J.R., Cholaquidis, A. and Cuevas, A. (2024). On the
functional regression model and its finite-dimensional approximations.
Statistical Papers, 56, 5167-5201.
Paper (open
access)
Chacón, J.E. and Fernández-Serrano, J. (2024). Bayesian taut
splines for estimating the number of modes. Computational Statistics
and Data Analysis, 196, 107961.
Paper (open
access)
Cholaquidis, A., Cuevas, A. and Moreno L. (2024). On the notion
of polynomial reach: a statistical application. Electronic Journal
of Statistics, 18, 3437-3460.
Paper (open
access)
Mendiola, M., Heredia-Soto, V., Ruz-Caracuel, I., Baíllo, A.,
Ramon-Patino, J.L., Berjon, A., Escudero, F.J., Pelaez-Garcia, A.,
Hernandez, A., Feliu, J., Hardisson, D. and Redondo, A. (2024).
Performance of the Idylla microsatellite instability test in endometrial
cancer. Molecular and Cellular Probes, 77,
101976.
Paper (open
access)
Pallarès, N., Inouzhe, H., Straw, S., Safdar, N., Fernández, D.
et al. (2024). Development and validation of a model to predict ceiling
of care in COVID-19 hospitalized patients. BMC palliative care,
23, 173.
Paper
(open access)
Ramos-Carreño, C., Torrecilla, J. L., Carbajo-Berrocal, M.,
Marcos, P. and Suárez, A. (2024). scikit-fda: a Python package for
functional data analysis. Journal of Statistical Software.
109, 1-37.
Paper (open
access)
del Barrio, E., Inouzhe, H. and Loubes, J.M. (2023).
Attraction-repulsion clustering: a way of promoting diversity linked to
demographic parity in fair clustering. Advances in Data Analysis and
Classification, 17, 859-896.
Paper
(open access)
Berrendero, J.R., Bueno-Larraz, B. and Cuevas, A. (2023). On
functional logistic regression: some conceptual issues. TEST,
32, 321-349.
Paper (open
access)
Chacón, J.E. and Fernández-Serrano, J. (2023). Bump hunting
through density curvature features. TEST, 32,
1251-1275.
Paper (open
access)
Chacón, J.E. and Rastrojo, A.I. (2023). Minimum adjusted Rand
index for two clusterings of a given size. Advances in Data Analysis
and Classification, 17, 125-133.
Paper (open
access)
Inouzhe, H. (2023) Advances in Cytometry Gating Based on
Statistical Distances and Dissimilarities. In Statistical Methods at
the Forefront of Biomedical Advances, Springer, 115-141.
Preprint
| doi
Ramos-Carreño, C. and Torrecilla, J.L. (2023). dcor: Distance
correlation and energy statistics in Python. SoftwareX,
22, 101326.
Paper (open
access)
Baíllo, A., Cárcamo, J. and Mora-Corral, C. (2022). Extreme
points of Lorenz and ROC curves with applications to inequality
analysis, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications,
514, 2, 126335.
Paper (open
access)
Baíllo, A. and Chacón, J.E. (2022). A new selection criterion for
statistical home range estimation. Journal of Applied
Statistics, 49, 722-737.
doi
Cao, R. and Chacón, J.E. (2022). Introduction to the special
issue on Data Science for COVID-19. Journal of Nonparametric
Statistics, 34, 555-569.
Paper (free
access)
Miranda, K., Poncela, P. and Ruiz, E. (2022). Dynamic factor
models: Does the specification matter?. SERIEs
13, 397–428.
Paper (open
access)
Ramos-Carreño, C., Torrecilla, J.L., Hong, Y. and Suárez, A.
(2022). scikit-fda: Computational Tools for Machine Learning with
Functional Data. In 2022 IEEE 34rd International Conference on Tools
with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) (pp. 213-218). IEEE.
Preprint
Ramos-Carreño, C., Torrecilla, J. L. and Suárez, A. (2022).
Classification of Functional Data: A Comparative Study, In 2022 IEEE
21st International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
(ICMLA) (pp. 866-871). IEEE.
Preprint
| doi
Baíllo, A. and Chacón, J.E. (2021). Statistical outline of animal
home ranges: An application of set estimation. In Data Science:
Theory and Applications (A.S.R. Srinivasa Rao and C.R. Rao, eds.).
Handbook of Statistics, 44, 3–37.
doi
Baíllo, A. and Grané, A. (2021). Subsampling and aggregation: A
solution to the scalability problem in distance-based prediction for
mixed-type data. Mathematics, 9, 2247.
Paper (open
access)
Chacón, J.E. (2021). A close-up comparison of the
misclassification error distance and the adjusted Rand index for
external clustering evaluation. British Journal of Mathematical and
Statistical Psychology, 74, 203–231.
Preprint | doi
Chacón, J.E. (2021). Explicit agreement extremes for a 2×2 table
with given marginals. Journal of Classification,
38, 257–263.
Preprint | doi | expository
note (Spanish)
Poncela, P., Ruiz, E. and Miranda, K. (2021). Factor extraction
using Kalman filter and smoothing: This is not just another survey.
International Journal of Forecasting, 37,
1399-1425.
Paper (open
access)
del Barrio, E., Inouzhe, H., Loubes, J.M., Matrán, C. and
Mayo-Íscar, A. (2020). optimalFlow: Optimal-transport approach to flow
cytometry gating and population matching. BMC bioinformatics,
21, 1-25.
Paper (open
access)
del Barrio, E., Inouzhe, H. and Matrán, C. (2020). On approximate
validation of models: A Kolmogorov-Smirnov based approach.
TEST, 29, 938-965.
Preprint | doi
del Barrio, E., Inouzhe, H. and Matrán, C. (2020).
Box-Constrained Monotone Approximations to Lipschitz Regularizations,
with Applications to Robust Testing. Journal of Optimization Theory
and Applications, 187, 65-87.
Preprint | doi
Berrendero, J.R., Bueno-Larraz, B. and Cuevas, A. (2020). On
Mahalanobis distance in functional settings. Journal of Machine
Learning Research, 21, 1-33.
Paper (open access)
| expository note
(Spanish)
Cárcamo, J., Cuevas, A., Rodríguez, L.A. (2020). Directional
differentiability for supremum-type functionals: statistical
applications. Bernoulli, 26, 2143-2175.
Preprint
| doi
Casa, A., Chacón, J.E. and Menardi, G. (2020). Modal clustering
asymptotics with applications to bandwidth selection. Electronic
Journal of Statistics, 14, 835-856.
Paper (open
access)
Chacón, J.E. (2020). The Modal Age of Statistics.
International Statistical Review, 88,
122-141.
Preprint | doi
Cholaquidis, A. and Cuevas, A. (2020). Set estimation under
biconvexity restrictions. ESAIM: Probability and Statistics,
24, 770-788.
Preprint
Cuevas, A. and Fraiman, R. (2020). Nonparametric detection for
univariate and functional data. Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 209, 12-26.
doi
Torrecilla, J.L., Ramos-Carreño, C., Sánchez-Montañés, M. and
Suárez, A. (2020). Optimal classification of Gaussian processes in homo-
and heteroscedastic settings. Statistics and Computing,
30, 1091–1111.
doi
Baíllo, A., Cárcamo, J. and Getman, K. (2019). New distance
measures for classifying X-ray astronomy data into stellar classes.
Advances in Data Analysis and Classification,
13, 531-557.
Preprint
| doi
Berrendero, J.R., Bueno-Larraz, B. and Cuevas, A. (2019). An RKHS
model for variable selection in functional linear regression.
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 170,
22-45.
Preprint
| doi
Berrendero, J.R. and Cárcamo, J. (2019). Linear components of
quadratic classifiers. Advances in Data Analysis and
Classification, 13, 347-377.
Preprint
| doi | expository
note (Spanish)
Chacón, J.E. (2019). Mixture model modal clustering. Advances
in Data Analysis and Classification, 13,
379-404.
doi
Torrecilla, J.L., Quijano-Sánchez, L., Liberatore, F.,
López-Ossorio, J.J., and González-Álvarez, J.L. (2019). Evolution and
study of a copycat effect in intimate partner homicides: A lesson from
Spanish femicides. PloS one,
14(6):e0217914.
Paper (open
access)
Berrendero, J.R., Cuevas, A. and Torrecilla, J.L. (2018). On the
use of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces in functional classification.
Journal of the American Statistical Association,
113, 1210-1218.
Preprint
| Supplementary
material | doi | expository
note (Spanish) | SEIO
- BBVA Foundation Award 2022, Best methodological contribution in
the Statistics field.
Chacón, J.E. and Duong, T. (2018). Multivariate Kernel
Smoothing and Its Applications. Chapman and Hall.
Book website.
Cuevas, A. and Pateiro-López, B. (2018). Polynomial volume
estimation and its applications. Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 196, 174-184.
doi
Torrecilla, J.L. and Romo, J. (2018). Data learning from big
data. Statistics and Probability Letters, 136,
15-19.
doi
Aaron, C., Cholaquidis, A. and Cuevas, A. (2017). Detection of
low dimensionality and data denoising via set estimation techniques.
Electronic Journal of Statistics, 11,
4596-4628.
Paper (open
access).
Barba, I., Miró-Casas, E., Torrecilla, J.L., Pladevall, E.,
Tejedor, S., Sebastián-Pérez, R., Ruiz-Meana, M., Berrendero, J.R.,
Cuevas, A. and García-Dorado, D. (2017). High Fat Diet Induces Metabolic
Changes and Reduces Oxidative Stress in Female Mouse Hearts. Journal
of Nutritional Biochemistry, 40, 187–193.
Preprint
| doi
Cárcamo, J. (2017). Maps preserving moment sequences. Journal
of Theoretical Probability, 30, 212-232.
doi
Cárcamo, J. (2017). Integrated empirical processes in Lp with
applications to estimate probability metrics. Bernoulli,
23, 3412-3436.
Preprint
| doi
Cholaquidis, A., Forzani, L., Llop, P. and Moreno, L. (2017). On
the classification problem for Poisson Point Processes. Journal of
Multivariate Analysis, 153, 1-15.
Preprint | doi
Cuevas, A., Cholaquidis, A. and Fraiman, R. (2017). On visual
distances for spectrum-type functional data. Advances in Data
Analysis and Classification, 11, 5-24.
Preprint | doi
Miranda, K., Martínez-Ibañez, O. and Manjón-Antolín, M. (2017).
Estimating individual effects and their spatial spillovers in linear
panel data models: Public capital spillovers after all? Spatial
Statistics, 22, 1–17.
Preprint
| doi
Muelas, D., López de Vergara, J.E., Berrendero, J.R., Ramos, J.
and Aracil, J. (2017). Facing network management challenges with
functional data analysis: techniques and opportunities. Mobile
Networks and Applications, 22, 1124-1136.
Preprint
| doi
Berrendero, J.R., Cuevas, A. and Pateiro-López, B. (2016). Shape
classification based on interpoint distance distributions. Journal
of Multivariate Analysis, 146, 237-247.
Preprint
| doi
Berrendero, J.R., Cuevas, A. and Torrecilla, J.L. (2016). The
mRMR variable selection method: a comparative study for functional data.
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation,
86, 891-907.
Preprint
| Supplementary
material | doi
Berrendero, J.R., Cuevas, A. and Torrecilla, J.L. (2016).
Variable selection in functional data classification: a maxima-hunting
proposal. Statistica Sinica, 26,
619-638.
Preprint | doi | expository
note (Spanish)
Torrecilla, J.L. and Suárez, A. (2016). Feature selection in
functional data classification with recursive maxima hunting.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016
proceedings), 4835-4843.
Preprint
Baíllo, A., Cárcamo, J. and Nieto, S. (2015). A test for convex
dominance with respect to the exponential class based on an L1 distance.
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 64,
71–82.
doi
Berrendero, J.R. (2015). Simulación e inferencia estadística.
La Gaceta de la RSME, 18, 45-65.
Preprint
Chacón, J.E. (2015). A population background for nonparametric
density-based clustering. Statistical Science,
30, 518-532.
Preprint | doi
Chacón, J.E. and Duong, T. (2015) Efficient recursive algorithms
for functionals based on higher order derivatives of the multivariate
Gaussian density. Statistics and Computing,
25, 959-974.
Preprint | doi
Muelas, D., López de Vergara, J.E. and Berrendero, J.R. (2015).
Functional Data Analysis: A step forward in Network Management.
Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated
Network Management, IM’2015 (ISBN: 978-3-901882-76-0),
882-885.
Preprint
| doi
Muelas, D., López de Vergara, J.E., Berrendero, J.R. and Aracil,
J. (2015). Análisis funcional para gestión de red: técnicas, retos y
oportunidades. Actas de las XII Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática,
Jitel’2015 (ISBN: 978-84-606-8609-5), 197-204.
Link to the
workshop proceedings
Berrendero, J.R., Cholaquidis, A., Cuevas, A. and Fraiman, R.
(2014). A geometrically motivated parametric model in manifold
estimation. Statistics, 48, 983-1004.
Preprint
| doi
Chacón, J.E., Monfort, P. and Tenreiro, C. (2014). Fourier
methods for smooth distribution function estimation. Statistics and
Probability Letters, 84, 223-230.
Preprint | doi
Chacón, J.E. and Monfort, P. (2014). A comparison of bandwidth
selectors for mean shift clustering, in Theoretical and Applied
Issues in Statistics and Demography (C. H. Skiadas, Ed),
ISAST.
Preprint
Cholaquidis, A., Cuevas, A. and Fraiman, R. (2014). On Poincaré
cone property. The Annals of Statistics, 42,
255-284.
Paper (open
access)
Cuevas, A. (2014). A partial overview of the theory of statistics
with functional data. Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 147, 1-23.
doi
Cuevas, A. (2014). Different perspectives on Object Oriented Data
Analysis. Biometrical Journal 56, 754-757. This is a comment on
the paper “An Overview of Object Oriented Data Analysis” by J.S. Marron
and A.M. Alonso.
Paper (open
access)
Cuevas, A., Pateiro-López, B. and Llop, P. (2014). On the
estimation of the medial axis and inner parallel body. Journal of
Multivariate Analysis, 129, 171-185.
doi
Baíllo, A., Martínez-Muñoz, L. and Mellado, M. (2013).
Homogeneity tests for Michaelis-Menten curves with application to
fluorescence resonance energy transfer data. Journal of Biological
Systems, 21, 1350017.
doi
Berrendero, J.R. and Cárcamo, J. (2013). Reply to Baker (2013),
letter to the editor, The American Statistician,
67, 65.
doi
Chacón, J.E. and Duong, T. (2013). Data-driven density derivative
estimation, with applications to nonparametric clustering and bump
hunting. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 7,
499-532.
Paper (open
access)
Chacón, J.E. and Tenreiro, C. (2013). Data-based choice of the
number of pilot stages for plug-in bandwidth selection.
Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods.,
42, 2200-2214.
Preprint | doi
Cuevas, A., Fraiman, R. and Györfy, L. (2013). Towards a
universally consistent estimator of the Minkowski content. ESAIM:
Probability and Statistics, 17, 359-369.
doi
Barroso, R., Muñoz, L. M., Barrondo, S., Vega, B., Holgado, B.
L., Lucas, P., Baíllo, A., Salles, J., Rodríguez-Frade, J. M. and
Mellado, M. (2012). EBI2 regulates CXCL13-mediated responses by
heterodimerization with CXCR5. The FASEB Journal,
26, 4841-4854.
doi
Berrendero, J.R. and Cárcamo, J. (2012). The tangent classifier.
The American Statistician, 66, 185-194.
Preprint
| doi | expository
note (Spanish)
Berrendero, J.R. and Cárcamo, J. (2012). Tests for stochastic
orders and mean order statistics. Communications in Statistics
-Theory and Methods, 41, 1497-1509.
Preprint
| doi
Berrendero, J.R., Cuevas, A. and Pateiro-López, B. (2012).
Testing uniformity for the case of a planar unknown support.
Canadian Journal of Statistics, 40,
378-395.
Preprint
| doi
Berrendero, J.R., Cuevas, A. and Pateiro-López, B. (2012). A
multivariate uniformity test for the case of unknown support.
Statistics and Computing, 22, 259-271.
Preprint
| doi
Chacón, J. E. and Tenreiro, C. (2012). Exact and asymptotically
optimal bandwidths for kernel estimation of density functionals.
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability,
14, 523-548.
Preprint | doi
Cuevas, A., Fraiman, R. and Pateiro-López, B. (2012). On
statistical properties of sets fulfilling rolling-type conditions.
Advances in Applied Probability, 44,
311-329.
doi