Select Publications
Book Chapters
, 2024, 'Hellinger-Bhattacharyya Cross-Validation for Shape-Preserving Multivariate Wavelet Thresholding', in Doosti H (ed.), Flexible Nonparametric Curve Estimation, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 197 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66501-1_9
, 2024, 'Flexible Nonparametric Curve Estimation', in Doosti H (ed.), , Springer International Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66501-1
, 2011, 'A Nonparametric Functional Method for Signature Recognition', in Ferraty F (ed.), Recent Advances in Functional Data Analysis and Related Topics, Springer
Journal articles
, 2024, '(Re-)Reading Sklar (1959)—A Personal View on Sklar’s Theorem', Mathematics, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math12030380
, 2023, 'Statistical depth in abstract metric spaces', Statistics and Computing, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11222-023-10216-4
, 2022, 'The Hellinger Correlation', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117, pp. 639 - 653, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2020.1791132
, 2020, 'Copula modeling for discrete random vectors', Dependence Modeling, 8, pp. 417 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/demo-2020-0022
, 2018, 'Non-parametric evidence of second-leg home advantage in European football', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A Statistics in Society, 181, pp. 1009 - 1031, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12338
, 2018, 'Shape-preserving wavelet-based multivariate density estimation', Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 168, pp. 30 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2018.07.002
, 2018, 'Data-Driven Model Uncertainty Estimation in Hydrologic Data Assimilation', Water Resources Research, 54, pp. 1252 - 1280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2018WR022627
, 2018, 'Local-likelihood transformation kernel density estimation for positive random variables', Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2018.1424636
, 2017, 'A nonparametric copula approach to conditional Value-at-Risk', , https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05527
, 2015, 'Probit transformation for nonparametric kernel estimation of the copula density', Bernoulli : official journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
, 2015, 'Moments, errors, asymptotic normality and large deviation principle in nonparametric functional regression', Statistics and Probability Letters, 107, pp. 369 - 377, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2015.09.015
, 2014, 'Explicit Formula for Asymptotic Higher Moments of the Nadaraya-Watson Estimator', SANKHYA-SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY, 76, pp. 77 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13171-013-0035-y
, 2014, 'On the decisiveness of a game in a tournament', European Journal of Operational Research, 232, pp. 156 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.06.025
, 2014, 'Explicit formula for asymptotic higher moments of the Nadaraya-Watson estimator', Sankhya, the Indian Journal of Statistics - Series A, 76, pp. 77 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13171-013-0035-y
, 2013, 'Probit transformation for kernel density estimation on the unit interval', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109, pp. 346 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2013.842173
, 2013, 'A nonparametric measure of local association for two-way contingency tables', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 68, pp. 98 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2013.06.013
, 2012, 'Nonparametric bootstrap tests of conditional independence in two-way contingency tables', Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 112, pp. 130 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2012.05.015
, 2011, 'Curse of dimensionality and related issues in nonparametric functional regression', Statistics Surveys, 5, pp. 30 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-SS049
, 2010, 'Nonparametric tests for conditional independence in two-way contingency tables', Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, pp. 765 - 788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2009.12.017
, 2010, 'Single-index modelling of conditional probabilities in two-way contingency tables', Statistics, pp. 1 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02331881003650115
, 2010, 'Who deserved the 2008-2009 Belgian Football Champion title? A semiparametric Answer', Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 6, pp. article 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1559-0410.1225
, 2006, 'A survey about Single-Index Models theory', International Journal of Statistics and Systems, 1, pp. 203 - 230
Conference Papers
, 2007, 'Nonparametric test for conditional independence in two-way contingency tables', Castro Urdiales, Spain, presented at 15th European Young Statisticians Meeting, Castro Urdiales, Spain, 10 September 2007 - 14 September 2007, http://matematicas.unex.es/~idelpuerto/WEB_EYSM/Articles/be_gery_geenens_art.pdf
Working Papers
, 2019, An essay on copula modelling for discrete random vectors; or how to pour new wine into old bottles, arXiv:1901.08741, http://dx.doi.org, https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08741
, 2017, Mellin-Meijer-kernel density estimation on R+, arXiv:1707.04301, http://dx.doi.org, https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04301
, 2005, Index coefficients estimation in Single-Index Models: the Generalized Maximum Rank Correlation estimator, DP0535, http://dx.doi.org, https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal:122280/datastream/PDF_01/view
, Hellinger Correlation, Wiley, http://dx.doi.org10.1002/9781118445112.stat08444, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08444
Preprints
, 2025, The empirical discrete copula process, http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12316v1
, 2024, On the differentiability of $\phi$-projections in the discrete finite case, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2407.05997
, 2023, (Re-)reading Sklar (1959) -- A personal view on Sklar's theorem, http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08570v2
, 2023, Towards a universal representation of statistical dependence, http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08151v5
, 2022, Hellinger-Bhattacharyya cross-validation for shape-preserving multivariate wavelet thresholding, http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13854v1
, 2021, Statistical depth in abstract metric spaces, http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13779v1
, 2019, An essay on copula modelling for discrete random vectors; or how to pour new wine into old bottles, http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08741v2
, 2018, The Hellinger Correlation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10276
, 2017, A nonparametric copula approach to conditional Value-at-Risk, http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05527v2
, 2017, Shape-preserving wavelet-based multivariate density estimation, http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08321v1
, 2017, Mellin-Meijer-kernel density estimation on $\mathbb{R}^+$, http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04301v1
, 2017, Robust analysis of second-leg home advantage in UEFA football through better nonparametric confidence intervals for binary regression functions, http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07555v1
, 2016, Local-likelihood transformation kernel density estimation for positive random variables, http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04862v1
, 2014, Probit transformation for nonparametric kernel estimation of the copula density, http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4414v1
, 2013, Probit transformation for kernel density estimation on the unit interval, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4121v1
, 2012, A Nonparametric Measure of Local Association for two-way Contingency Tables, http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3460v1
, On the Decisiveness of a Game in a Tournament, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2195409