Засідання наукового семінару з асимптотичної статистики, 14 жовтня 2026 

Чергове засідання семінару з асимптотичної статистики (“Asymptotic Methods in Statistics”) відбудеться 14 жовтня (середа) 2026 р. 

🎤 Доповідач Dr. Sc. (Technics) Serhii Zabolotnii, Cherkasy State Business College (ORCID 0000-0003-0242-2234) . Тема доповіді – “Fair tontine insurance funds and their asymptotics as the number of participants grows”

Опис доповіді:

For linear regression with i.i.d. homoskedastic errors, optimally weighted second-order least squares (SLS) is the degree-two polynomial maximization method (PMM) estimating equation: both select the same optimal combination of the residual e and of e^2 – sigma^2, share one influence function, and attain the slope variance c_2 g_2 / N, where g_2 = 1 – gamma_3^2 / (2 + gamma_4) depends only on the skewness and kurtosis of the error law. The identity is one of estimating equations, not merely of asymptotic variances: the Kunchenko centered-correlation matrix F_2 is the SLS weighting operator after a change of variables, and the design-dependent factors of the SLS residual cancel in the slope score. The identity stops where the optimal combination depends on the design; outside that scope conditional SLS is the more general object. Within the polynomial moment class, degree three holds an efficiency reserve: on four right-skewed laws the cubic direction adds between 30% and 50% asymptotic efficiency, and under symmetric platykurtic errors it is the only informative direction, since g_2 = 1 there. The reserve belongs to the degree-three span, which an efficient generalized method of moments estimator also attains; the PMM normal system is the low-dimensional route to it, and the difference is visible at n <= 200. The talk gives the asymptotic law of the feasible plug-in estimator, a bootstrap pretest for choosing the degree, Lean 4 checks of the degree-specific algebra, simulation evidence, and a residual-calibrated study on drilling innovations from the Utah FORGE 58-32 well.

Preprint: arXiv:2606.11421

One can find video files and slides of talks at the seminar on Asymptotic Methods in Statistics here:

https://www.youtube.com/@SeminarforAsymptoticMethods

A link to a slide is below the description of the video, namely 
https://shorturl.at/jUAhL and https://shorturl.at/6wjUA
https://shorturl.at/rdpqs

🕔 Початок засідання  о 17:00.

💻 Засідання відбудеться онлайн за посиланням: Zoom

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👥 Керівники семінару – О.Г. Кукуш, Р.Є. Майборода