Yuhong Yang

Publication List Details

Period

1996 - 2008

Number

79

Co-Authors

Consistency of cross validation for comparing regression procedures (2008)

Yang, Yuhong

Theoretical developments on cross validation (CV) have mainly focused on selecting one among a list of finite-dimensional models (e.g., subset or order selection in linear regression) or selecting a...

PPAR Alpha Regulation of the Immune Response and Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (2008)

Yuhong Yang, Anne R. Gocke, Amy Lovett-Racke, Paul D. Drew, Michael K. Racke

PPARs are members of the steroid hormone nuclear receptor superfamily and play an important role in the regulation of lipid metabolism, energy balance, artherosclerosis and glucose control. Recent...

Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining? (2007)

Chen, Zhuo, Yang, Yuhong

In this paper we systematically compare forecasting accuracy of hypothesis testing procedures with that of a model combining algorithm. Testing procedures are commonly used in applications to select...

Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining? (2007)

Chen, Zhuo, Yang, Yuhong

In this paper we systematically compare forecasting accuracy of hypothesis testing procedures with that of a model combining algorithm. Testing procedures are commonly used in applications to select...

Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining? (2007)

Chen, Zhuo, Yang, Yuhong

In this paper we systematically compare forecasting accuracy of hypothesis testing procedures with that of a model combining algorithm. Testing procedures are commonly used in applications to select...

Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining? (2007)

Chen, Zhuo, Yang, Yuhong

In this paper we systematically compare forecasting accuracy of hypothesis testing procedures with that of a model combining algorithm. Testing procedures are commonly used in applications to select...

Combining Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Versus Cross-Validation Selection (2004)

Paik, Minhui, Yang, Yuhong

Various discriminant methods have been applied for classification of tumors based on gene expression profiles, among which the nearest neighbor (NN) method has been reported to perform relatively...

Combining Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Versus Cross-Validation Selection (2004)

Paik, Minhui, Yang, Yuhong

Various discriminant methods have been applied for classification of tumors based on gene expression profiles, among which the nearest neighbor (NN) method has been reported to perform relatively...

Combining Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Versus Cross-Validation Selection (2004)

Paik, Minhui, Yang, Yuhong

Various discriminant methods have been applied for classification of tumors based on gene expression profiles, among which the nearest neighbor (NN) method has been reported to perform relatively...

Combining Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Versus Cross-Validation Selection (2004)

Paik, Minhui, Yang, Yuhong

Various discriminant methods have been applied for classification of tumors based on gene expression profiles, among which the nearest neighbor (NN) method has been reported to perform relatively...

Combining Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Versus Cross-Validation Selection (2004)

Minhui Paik, Yuhong Yang

Various discriminant methods have been applied for classification of tumors based on gene expression profiles, among which the nearest neighbor (NN) method was reported to perform relatively well....

Prediction/estimation With Simple Linear Models: Is It Really That Simple? (2004)

Yuhong Yang

Consider the simple normal linear regression model for estimation/prediction at a new design point. When the slope parameter is not obviously nonzero, hypothesis testing and model selection methods...

Aggregating regression procedures to improve performance (2004)

Yang, Yuhong

A fundamental question regarding combining procedures concerns the potential gain and how much one needs to pay for it in terms of statistical risk. Juditsky and Nemirovski considered the case where...

Can the Strengths of AIC and BIC Be Shared? (2004)

Yuhong Yang

It is well known that AIC and BIC have di#erent properties in model selection. BIC is consistent in the sense that if the true model is among the candidates, the probability of selecting the true...

Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining? (2002)

Zhuo Chen, Yuhong Yang

In this paper we compare forecasting performance of hypothesis testing procedures with a model combining algorithm called AFTER. Testing procedures are commonly used in practice to select a model...

Randomized Allocation with nonparametric estimation for a multi-armed bandit problem with covariates (2002)

Yang, Yuhong, Zhu, Dan

We study a multi-armed bandit problem in a setting where covariates are available. We take a nonparametric approach to estimate the functional relationship between the response (reward) and the...

Regression with Multiple Candidate Models: Selecting or (2002)

Yuhong Yang

Model averaging provides an alternative to model selection. An algorithm ARM rooted in information theory is proposed to combine different regression models/methods. A simulation is conducted in the...

Combining Different Procedures for Adaptive Regression (2002)

Yuhong Yang

Given any countable collection of regression procedures (e.g., kernel, spline, wavelet, local polynomial, neural nets, etc), weshow that a single adaptive procedure can be constructed to share the...

Combining Time Series Models for Forecasting (2002)

Yuhong Yang, Hui Zou

Statistical models (e.g., ARIMA models) have been commonly used in time series data analysis and forecasting. Typically one model is selected based on a selection criterion (e.g., AIC), hypothesis...

Combining Time Series Models for Forecasting (2001)

Yuhong Yang, Hui Zou

Statistical models (e.g., ARIMA models) have been commonly used in time series data analysis and forecasting. Typically one model is selected based on a selection criterion (e.g., AIC), hypothesis...

Nonparametric regression with dependent errors (2001)

Yang, Yuhong

We study minimax rates of convergence for nonparametric regression under a random design with dependent errors. It is shown that when the errors are independent of the explanatory variables,...

Nonparametric Regressin with Correlated Errors (2001)

Opsomer, Jean, Wang, Yuedong, Yang, Yuhong

Nonparametric regression techniques are often sensitive to the presence of correlation in the errors. The practical consequences of this sensitivity are explained, including the breakdown of several...

Randomized Allocation with Nonparametric Estimation for a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem with Covariates (2001)

Yuhong Yang, Dan Zhu

We study a multi-armed bandit problem in a setting with covariates available. We take a nonparametric approach to estimate the functional relationship between the response (reward) and the...

How Accurate Can Any Regression Procedure Be? (2000)

Yuhong Yang

Various parametric and nonparametric regression procedures have been constructed according to different possible characteristics of the underlying regression function. To reduce the dependence on...

Model Selection for Nonparametric Regression (2000)

Yuhong Yang

: Risk bounds are derived for regression estimation based on model selection over a unrestricted number of models. While a large list of models provides more flexibility, significant selection bias...

Information-Theoretic Determination of Minimax Rates of Convergence (2000)

Yuhong Yang, Andrew Barron

In this paper, we present some general results determining minimax bounds on statistical risk for density estimation based on certain information-theoretic considerations. These bounds depend only on...

Information-Theoretic Determination of Minimax Rates of Convergence (2000)

Yuhong Yang, Andrew Barron

In this paper, we present some general results determining minimax bounds on statistical risk for density estimation based on certain information-theoretic considerations. These bounds depend only on...

On Adaptive Function Estimation (2000)

Yuhong Yang

General results on adaptive function estimation are obtained with respect to a collection of estimation strategies for both density estimation and nonparametric regression under square L 2 loss. It...

Minimax Nonparametric Classification - Part I: Rates of Convergence (2000)

Yuhong Yang

This paper studies minimax aspects of nonparametric classification. We first study minimax estimation of the conditional probability of a class label, given the feature variable. This function, say...

Minimax Nonparametric Classification - Part II: Model Selection for Adaptation (2000)

Yuhong Yang

We study nonparametric estimation of a conditional probability for classification based on a collection of finite-dimensional models. For the sake of flexibility, different types of models, linear or...

Nonparametric Regression and Prediction with Dependent Errors (2000)

Yuhong Yang

We study minimax rates of convergence for nonparametric regression and prediction under a random design with dependent errors. It is shown that dependence among errors in general does not hurt a...

Adaptive Regression by Mixing (2000)

Yuhong Yang

Adaptation over different procedures is of practical importance. Different procedures perform well under different conditions. In many practical situations, it is rather hard to assess which...

Minimax Nonparametric Classification - Part I: Rates of Convergence (2000)

Yuhong Yang

This paper studies minimax aspects of nonparametric classification. Wefirst study minimax estimation of the conditional probability of a class label, given the feature variable. This function, say f#...

Minimax Rate Adaptive Estimation Over Continuous Hyper-Parameters (2000)

Yuhong Yang

We study minimax-rate adaptive estimation for density classes indexed by continuous hyper-parameters. The classes are assumed to be partially ordered in terms of inclusion relationship. Under a mild...

Nonparametric Regression with Correlated Errors (2000)

Jean Opsomer, Yuedong Wang, Yuhong Yang

Nonparametric regression techniques are often sensitive to the presence of correlation in the errors. The practical consequences of this sensitivity are explained, including the breakdown of several...

Combining Forecasting Procedures: Some Theoretical Results (2000)

Yuhong Yang

We study some methods of combining procedures for forecasting a continuous random variable. Statistical risk bounds under the square error loss are obtained under mild distributional assumptions on...

Adaptive Regression by Mixing (2000)

Yuhong Yang

Adaptation over different procedures is of practical importance. Different procedures perform well under different conditions. In many practical situations, it is rather hard to assess which...

Regression with Multiple Candidate Models: Selecting or Mixing? (2000)

Yuhong Yang

Model averaging provides an alternative to model selection. An algorithm ARM rooted in information theory is proposed to combine different regression models/methods. A simulation is conducted in the...

Nonparametric Regression and Prediction with Dependent Errors (2000)

Yuhong Yang

We study minimax rates of convergence for nonparametric regression and prediction under a random design with dependent errors. It is shown that dependence among errors in general does not hurt a...

Minimax Nonparametric Classification - Part I: Rates of Convergence (2000)

Yuhong Yang

This paper studies minimax aspects of nonparametric classification. We first study minimax estimation of the conditional probability of a class label, given the feature variable. This function, say f...

Mixing strategies for density estimation (2000)

Yang, Yuhong

General results on adaptive density estimation are obtained with respect to any countable collection of estimation strategies under Kullback-Leibler and squared $L_2$ losses. It is shown that without...

Minimax Rate Adaptive Estimation Over Continuous Hyper-Parameters (1999)

Yuhong Yang

We study minimax-rate adaptive estimation for density classes indexed by continuous hyper-parameters. The classes are assumed to be partially ordered in terms of inclusion relationship. Under a mild...

Aggregating Regression Procedures for a Better Performance (1999)

Yuhong Yang

Methods have been proposed to linearly combine candidate regression procedures to improve estimation accuraccy. Applications of these methods in many examples are very succeesful, pointing to the...

Combining Different Procedures for Adaptive Regression (1999)

Yuhong Yang

Given any countable collection of regression procedures (e.g., kernel, spline, wavelet, local polynomial, neural nets, etc), we show that a single adaptive procedure can be constructed to share the...

Information-theoretic determination of minimax rates of convergence (1999)

Yang, Yuhong, Barron, Andrew

We present some general results determining minimax bounds on statistical risk for density estimation based on certain information-theoretic considerations. These bounds depend only on metric entropy...

Mixing Strategies for Density Estimation (1999)

Yuhong Yang

General results on adaptive density estimation are obtained with respect to any countable collection of estimation strategies under Kullback-Leibler and square L 2 losses. It is shown that without...

Nonparametric Regression with Correlated Errors (1999)

Jean Opsomer, Yuedong Wang, Yuhong Yang

Nonparametric regression techniques are often sensitive to the presence of correlation in the errors. The practical consequences of this sensitivity are explained, with particular emphasis on...

Information-Theoretic Determination of Minimax Rates of Convergence (1996)

Andrew Barron, Yuhong Yang

In this paper, we present some general results determining minimax bounds on statistical risk for density estimation based on certain information-theoretic considerations. These bounds depend only on...

Minimax optimal density estimation / (1996)

Yang, Yuhong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1996.

Adaptive Estimation in Pattern Recognition by Combining Different Procedures (1970)

Yuhong Yang

: We study a problem of adaptive estimation of a conditional probability function in a pattern recognition setting. In many applications, for more flexibility, one may want to consider various...

Information-Theoretic Determination of Minimax Rates of Convergence (1970)

Yuhong Yang, Andrew Barron

In this paper, we present some general results determining minimax bounds on statistical risk for density estimation based on certain information-theoretic considerations. These bounds depend only on...

Combining Forecasting Procedures: Some Theoretical Results.

Yang, Yuhong

We study some methods of combining procedures for forecasting a continuous random variable. Statistical risk bounds under the square error loss are obtained under distributional assumptions on the...

Interlocked feedback loops contribute to the robustness of the Neurospora circadian clock

Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, Liu, Yi

Interlocked feedback loops may represent a common feature among the regulatory systems controlling circadian rhythms. The Neurospora circadian feedback loops involve white collar-1 (wc-1), wc-2, and...

PAS Domain-Mediated WC-1/WC-2 Interaction Is Essential for Maintaining the Steady-State Level of WC-1 and the Function of Both Proteins in Circadian Clock and Light Responses of Neurospora

Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, Gardner, Kevin H., Liu, Yi

In the frq-wc-based circadian feedback loops of Neurospora, two PAS domain-containing transcription factors, WHITE COLLAR-1 (WC-1) and WC-2, form heterodimeric complexes that activate the...

Coiled-coil domain-mediated FRQ–FRQ interaction is essential for its circadian clock function in Neurospora

Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, Heintzen, Christian, Liu, Yi

The frequency (frq) gene, the central component of the frq-based circadian negative feedback loop, regulates various aspects of the circadian clock in Neurospora. However, the biochemical function of...

Regulation of the Neurospora circadian clock by casein kinase II

Yang, Yuhong, Cheng, Ping, Liu, Yi

Phosphorylation of clock proteins represents an important mechanism regulating circadian clocks. In Neurospora, clock protein FREQUENCY (FRQ) is progressively phosphorylated over time, and its level...

Functional conservation of light, oxygen, or voltage domains in light sensing

Cheng, Ping, He, Qiyang, Yang, Yuhong, Wang, Lixin, Liu, Yi

In Neurospora, the flavin adenine dinucleotide-containing protein WHITE COLLAR-1 is the blue-light photoreceptor for the circadian clock and other light responses. The putative chromophore-binding...

Phosphorylation of FREQUENCY Protein by Casein Kinase II Is Necessary for the Function of the Neurospora Circadian Clock

Yang, Yuhong, Cheng, Ping, He, Qiyang, Wang, Lixin, Liu, Yi

FREQUENCY (FRQ), a key component of the Neurospora circadian clock, is progressively phosphorylated after its synthesis. Previously, we identified casein kinase II (CKII) as a kinase that...

FWD1-mediated degradation of FREQUENCY in Neurospora establishes a conserved mechanism for circadian clock regulation

He, Qun, Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, He, Qiyang, Yu, Hongtao, Liu, Yi

Phosphorylation of the Neurospora circadian clock protein FREQUENCY (FRQ) regulates its degradation and the proper function of the clock. The mechanism by which FRQ undergoes degradation has not been...

Distinct roles for PP1 and PP2A in the Neurospora circadian clock

Yang, Yuhong, He, Qun, Cheng, Ping, Wrage, Philip, Yarden, Oded, Liu, Yi

Phosphorylation of the Neurospora circadian clock protein FREQUENCY by several kinases promotes its degradation and is important for the function of the circadian feedback loop. Here, we show that...

Interlocked feedback loops contribute to the robustness of the Neurospora circadian clock

Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, Liu, Yi

Interlocked feedback loops may represent a common feature among the regulatory systems controlling circadian rhythms. The Neurospora circadian feedback loops involve white collar-1 (wc-1), wc-2, and...

PAS Domain-Mediated WC-1/WC-2 Interaction Is Essential for Maintaining the Steady-State Level of WC-1 and the Function of Both Proteins in Circadian Clock and Light Responses of Neurospora

Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, Gardner, Kevin H., Liu, Yi

In the frq-wc-based circadian feedback loops of Neurospora, two PAS domain-containing transcription factors, WHITE COLLAR-1 (WC-1) and WC-2, form heterodimeric complexes that activate the...

Coiled-coil domain-mediated FRQ–FRQ interaction is essential for its circadian clock function in Neurospora

Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, Heintzen, Christian, Liu, Yi

The frequency (frq) gene, the central component of the frq-based circadian negative feedback loop, regulates various aspects of the circadian clock in Neurospora. However, the biochemical function of...

Regulation of the Neurospora circadian clock by casein kinase II

Yang, Yuhong, Cheng, Ping, Liu, Yi

Phosphorylation of clock proteins represents an important mechanism regulating circadian clocks. In Neurospora, clock protein FREQUENCY (FRQ) is progressively phosphorylated over time, and its level...

Functional conservation of light, oxygen, or voltage domains in light sensing

Cheng, Ping, He, Qiyang, Yang, Yuhong, Wang, Lixin, Liu, Yi

In Neurospora, the flavin adenine dinucleotide-containing protein WHITE COLLAR-1 is the blue-light photoreceptor for the circadian clock and other light responses. The putative chromophore-binding...

Phosphorylation of FREQUENCY Protein by Casein Kinase II Is Necessary for the Function of the Neurospora Circadian Clock

Yang, Yuhong, Cheng, Ping, He, Qiyang, Wang, Lixin, Liu, Yi

FREQUENCY (FRQ), a key component of the Neurospora circadian clock, is progressively phosphorylated after its synthesis. Previously, we identified casein kinase II (CKII) as a kinase that...

FWD1-mediated degradation of FREQUENCY in Neurospora establishes a conserved mechanism for circadian clock regulation

He, Qun, Cheng, Ping, Yang, Yuhong, He, Qiyang, Yu, Hongtao, Liu, Yi

Phosphorylation of the Neurospora circadian clock protein FREQUENCY (FRQ) regulates its degradation and the proper function of the clock. The mechanism by which FRQ undergoes degradation has not been...

Distinct roles for PP1 and PP2A in the Neurospora circadian clock

Yang, Yuhong, He, Qun, Cheng, Ping, Wrage, Philip, Yarden, Oded, Liu, Yi

Phosphorylation of the Neurospora circadian clock protein FREQUENCY by several kinases promotes its degradation and is important for the function of the circadian feedback loop. Here, we show that...

CKI and CKII mediate the FREQUENCY-dependent phosphorylation of the WHITE COLLAR complex to close the Neurospora circadian negative feedback loop

He, Qun, Cha, Joonseok, He, Qiyang, Lee, Heng-Chi, Yang, Yuhong, Liu, Yi

The eukaryotic circadian oscillators consist of circadian negative feedback loops. In Neurospora, it was proposed that the FREQUENCY (FRQ) protein promotes the phosphorylation of the WHITE COLLAR...

LOCALIZED MODEL SELECTION FOR REGRESSION

Yang, Yuhong

Research on model procedure selection has focused on selecting a single model globally. In many applications, especially for high-dimensional or complex data, however, the relative performance of the...

COMBINING FORECASTING PROCEDURES: SOME THEORETICAL RESULTS

Yang, Yuhong

We study some methods of combining procedures for forecasting a continuous random variable. Statistical risk bounds under the square error loss are obtained under distributional assumptions on the...

PREDICTION/ESTIMATION WITH SIMPLE LINEAR MODELS: IS IT REALLY THAT SIMPLE?

Yang, Yuhong

Consider the simple normal linear regression model for estimation prediction at a new design point. When the slope parameter is not obviously nonzero, hypothesis testing and information criteria can...

Time Series Models for Forecasting: Testing or Combining?

Zhuo Chen, Yuhong Yang

In this paper we systematically compare forecasting accuracy of hypothesis testing procedures with that of a model combining algorithm. Testing procedures are commonly used in applications to select...

Combining Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Versus Cross-Validation Selection

Minhui Paik, Yuhong Yang

Various discriminant methods have been applied for classification of tumors based on gene expression profiles, among which the nearest neighbor (NN) method has been reported to perform relatively...

PPAR Alpha Regulation of the Immune Response and Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

Yang, Yuhong, Gocke, Anne R., Lovett-Racke, Amy, Drew, Paul D., Racke, Michael K.

PPARs are members of the steroid hormone nuclear receptor superfamily and play an important role in the regulation of lipid metabolism, energy balance, artherosclerosis and glucose control. Recent...

Can the strengths of AIC and BIC be shared? A conflict between model indentification and regression estimation

Yuhong Yang

A traditional approach to statistical inference is to identify the true or best model first with little or no consideration of the specific goal of inference in the model identification stage. Can...