Segmentation of the mean of heteroscedastic data via cross-validation

  • Authors:
  • Sylvain Arlot;Alain Celisse

  • Affiliations:
  • Willow Project-Team, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS/ENS/INRIA UMR 8548, Paris Cedex 13, France 75214;Laboratoire de Mathématique Paul Painlevé UMR 8524 CNRS, Université Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France 59 655

  • Venue:
  • Statistics and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper tackles the problem of detecting abrupt changes in the mean of a heteroscedastic signal by model selection, without knowledge on the variations of the noise. A new family of change-point detection procedures is proposed, showing that cross-validation methods can be successful in the heteroscedastic framework, whereas most existing procedures are not robust to heteroscedasticity. The robustness to heteroscedasticity of the proposed procedures is supported by an extensive simulation study, together with recent partial theoretical results. An application to Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) data is provided, showing that robustness to heteroscedasticity can indeed be required for their analysis.