We consider the detection of multivariate spatial clusters in the Bernoulli model with $N$ locations, where the design distribution has weakly dependent marginals. The locations are scanned with a rectangular window with sides parallel to the axes and with varying sizes and aspect ratios. Multivariate scan statistics pose a statistical problem due to the multiple testing over many scan windows, as well as a computational problem because statistics have to be evaluated on many windows. This paper introduces methodology that leads to both statistically optimal inference and computationally efficient algorithms. The main difference to the traditional calibration of scan statistics is the concept of grouping scan windows according to their sizes, and then applying different critical values to different groups. It is shown that this calibration of the scan statistic results in optimal inference for spatial clusters on both small scales and on large scales, as well as in the case where the cluster lives on one of the marginals. Methodology is introduced that allows for an efficient approximation of the set of all rectangles while still guaranteeing the statistical optimality results described above. It is shown that the resulting scan statistic has a computational complexity that is almost linear in $N$.
Sequential change-point detection for graphs is a fundamental problem for streaming network data types and has wide applications in social networks and power systems. Given fixed vertices and a sequence of random graphs, the objective is to detect the change-point where the underlying distribution of the random graph changes. In particular, we focus on the local change that only affects a subgraph. We adopt the classical Erdos-Renyi model and revisit the generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) detection procedure. The scan statistic is computed by sequentially estimating the most-likely subgraph wh…
University at Albany - SUNY(纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校);New York University(纽约大学);The University of Texas at Dallas(德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校)
We propose a new approach, the calibrated nonparametric scan statistic (CNSS), for more accurate detection of anomalous patterns in large-scale, real-world graphs. Scan statistics identify connected subgraphs that are interesting or unexpected through maximization of a likelihood ratio statistic; in particular, nonparametric scan statistics (NPSSs) identify subgraphs with a higher than expected proportion of individually significant nodes. However, we show that recently proposed NPSS methods are miscalibrated, failing to account for the maximization of the statistic over the multiplicity of su…
Detection of Sparse Mixtures: Higher Criticism and Scan Statistic
我们考虑Ingster(1997)和Donoho and Jin(2004)研究的稀疏混合检测问题。我们考虑一系列广泛的基础分布。特别是,我们研究的情况下,基础分布有多项式的尾巴,在文献中没有得到太多的关注的情况。也许令人惊讶的是,我们发现,在这种幂律分布的背景下,更高的批评没有达到检测边界。然而,扫描统计数据却如此。
We consider the problem of detecting an elevated mean on an interval with unknown location and length in the univariate Gaussian sequence model. Recent results have shown that using scale-dependent critical values for the scan statistic allows to attain asymptotically optimal detection simultaneously for all signal lengths, thereby improving on the traditional scan, but this procedure has been criticized for losing too much power for short signals. We explain this discrepancy by showing that these asymptotic optimality results will necessarily be too imprecise to discern the performance of sca…