Welcome to this page that features the papers I have been lucky to work on. Here is my complete list of publications. Below you find a selection of them.



Selected works


  1. On Sobolev tests for symmetry of directions, their detection thresholds, and asymptotic powers. Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear (2025+)(coauthors: E.Garcia-Portugués and D.Paindaveine).
  2. Rank tests for PCA under weak identifiability, Annals of Statistics, to appear (2025+) (coauthors: D. Paindaveine and L. Peralvo-Maroto).
  3. On runs tests for directional data and their local and asymptotic optimality properties, Statistica Sinica, to appear (2025+) (coauthors: M. Boucher, C. Francq and Y. Goto).
  4. Nonparametric measure-transportation-based methods for directional data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Vol.86, 1172-1196 (2024) (coauthors: M. Hallin and H. Liu).
  5. Power enhancement for dimension detection of Gaussian signals, Statistica Sinica, Vol. 34, 2161-2182 (2024) (coauthor: G. Bernard).
  6. Testing for auto-calibration with Lorenz and Concentration curves, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 117, 130-139 (2024) (coauthors: M. Denuit, J. Huyghe and J. Trufin).
  7. Nonparametric tests of independence for circular data based on trigonometric moments, Statistica Sinica, Vol. 34, 567-588 (2024) (coauthors: E. Garcia-Portugués, P. Lafaye de Micheaux and S. Meintanis).
  8. Preliminary Multiple-Test Estimation, with Applications to k-sample Covariance Estimation, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 117, 1904-1915 (2022) (coauthors: D. Paindaveine and J. Rasoafaraniaina).
  9. Testing uniformity on high-dimensional spheres: the non-null behaviour of the Bingham test, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (P&S), Vol. 58, 567-602 (2022) (coauthors: C. Cutting and D. Paindaveine).
  10. Testing for positive expectation dependence with application to model comparison, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 101, 163-172 (2021) (coauthors: M. Denuit and J. Trufin).
  11. On optimal tests for rotational symmetry against new classes of hyperspherical distributions, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 115, 1873-1887 (2020) (coauthors: E.Garcia-Portugués and D.Paindaveine).
  12. Inference for spherical location under high concentration, Annals of Statistics, Vol.48, 2982-2998 (2020) (coauthor: D. Paindaveine).
  13. Sign tests for weak principal directions, Bernoulli, Vol.26, 2987-3016 (2020) (coauthors: D.Paindaveine and J.Remy).
  14. Detecting the direction of a signal on high-dimensional spheres: non-null and Le Cam optimality results, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Vol. 176, 1165-1216 (2020) (coauthor: D.Paindaveine).
  15. On new Sobolev tests of uniformity on the circle with extension to the sphere, Bernoulli, Vol. 26, 2226-2252 (2020) (coauthors: S.R. Jammalamadaka and S. Meintanis).
  16. Testing for principal component directions under weak identifiability, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 48, 324-345 (2020) (coauthors: D.Paindaveine and J.Remy).
  17. Le Cam maximin tests for symmetry of circular data based on the characteristic function, Statistica Sinica, Vol.29, 1301-1321 (2019) (coauthor: S.Meintanis).
  18. On the efficiency of some rank-based test for the homogeneity of concentrations, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol.191, 101–109 (2017).
  19. Testing uniformity on high-dimensional spheres against contiguous rotationally symmetric alternatives, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 45, 1024–1058 (2017) (coauthors: C.Cutting and D.Paindaveine).
  20. Inference on the mode of weak directional signals: a Le Cam perspective on hypothesis testing near singularities, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 45, 800–832 (2017) (coauthor: D.Paindaveine).
  21. On high-dimensional sign tests, Bernoulli, Vol. 22, 1745-1769 (2016) (coauthor: D.Paindaveine).
  22. Efficient R-estimation of principal and common principal components. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 109, 1071-1083 (2014) (coauthors: M. Hallin and D.Paindaveine).
  23. Simple, asymptotically distribution-free, optimal tests for reflective symmetry about a known circular median. Statistica Sinica, Vol. 24, 1319-1340 (2014) (coauthor: C.Ley).
  24. Optimal rank-based tests for Common Principal Components, Bernoulli, Vol. 19, 2524-2556 (2013) (coauthors: M. Hallin and D. Paindaveine).
  25. Optimal R-estimation of a spherical location. Statistica Sinica, Vol. 23(1), 305-333 (2013) (coauthors: C. Ley, Y. Swan and B.Thiam).
  26. R-estimation in linear models with stable errors. Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 172(2), 195-204 (2013) (coauthors: M.Hallin, Y.Swan and D.Veredas).
  27. Optimal rank-based tests for Principal Component Analysis. Annals of Statistics, Vol. 38, 3245-3299 (2010) (coauthors: M. Hallin and D. Paindaveine).