Minimax Robust Hypothesis Testing

DOI10.1109/TIT.2017.2693198zbMATH Open1373.90174arXiv1502.00647OpenAlexW2963794455MaRDI QIDQ4589394FDOQ4589394

Authors: Gökhan Gül, Abdelhak M. Zoubir 

Publication date: 10 November 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The minimax robust hypothesis testing problem for the case where the nominal probability distributions are subject to both modeling errors and outliers is studied in twofold. First, a robust hypothesis testing scheme based on a relative entropy distance is designed. This approach provides robustness with respect to modeling errors and is a generalization of a previous work proposed by Levy. Then, it is shown that this scheme can be combined with Huber's robust test through a composite uncertainty class, for which the existence of a saddle value condition is also proven. The composite version of the robust hypothesis testing scheme as well as the individual robust tests are extended to fixed sample size and sequential probability ratio tests. The composite model is shown to extend to robust estimation problems as well. Simulation results are provided to validate the proposed assertions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00647

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Minimax problems in mathematical programming (90C47)

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