Miles Lopes, Ph.D.

Miles Lopes

Position Title
Associate Professor

  • Statistics
He/Him/His
4105 Mathematical Sciences Building
One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616
Bio

Education

  • UC Berkeley Ph.D.

Research Interests

  • Bootstrap methods
  • High-dimensional inference
  • Error estimation for randomized algorithms

Selected Works

  • Central limit theorem and bootstrap approximation in high dimensions: Near 1/√n rates via implicit smoothing, M. E. Lopes
    to appear: The Annals of Statistics, 2022+. [arxiv]
  • A sharp lower-tail bound for Gaussian maxima with application to bootstrap methods in high dimensions, M. E. Lopes, J. Yao
    Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2022. [pdf] [link]
  • Rates of bootstrap approximation for eigenvalues in high-dimensional PCA, J. Yao, M. E. Lopes
    to appear: Statistica Sinica, 2022+. [arxiv]
  • Bootstrapping max statistics in high dimensions:
    Near-parametric rates under weak variance decay and application to functional and multinomial data, M. E. Lopes, Z. Lin, H.-G. Mueller
    The Annals of Statistics, 2020. [link] [pdf] [arxiv]
  • Estimating the algorithmic variance of randomized ensembles via the bootstrap, M. E. Lopes
    The Annals of Statistics, 2019. [link] [pdf] [arxiv]
  • Bootstrapping spectral statistics in high dimensions, M. E. Lopes, A. Blandino, A. Aue
    Biometrika, 2019. [link] [arxiv]
Publications
  • Empirical Error Estimates for Graph Sparsification
    Conference Paper | Wang, S., Lopes, M. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 258, 595-603.
  • Improved rates of bootstrap approximation for the operator norm: A coordinate-free approach
    Journal Article | Lopes, M. Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques, 61, 2262-2290. 10.1214/24-aihp1477
  • Testing Elliptical Models in High Dimensions
    Journal Article | Wang, S., Lopes, M. Journal of the American Statistical Association, ahead-of-print, 1-11. 10.1080/01621459.2025.2518617
  • Rates of Bootstrap Approximation for Eigenvalues in High-Dimensional PCA
    Journal Article | Yao, J., Lopes, M. Statistica Sinica, 33, 1461-1481. 10.5705/ss.202021.0158
  • A bootstrap method for spectral statistics in high-dimensional elliptical models
    Journal Article | Wang, S., Lopes, M. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 17, 1848-1892. 10.1214/23-ejs2140
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