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The truncated normal selective pivot is conditionally uniform
Statement
Assume AC and the setup of Polyhedral selective normal pivot, with . For -almost every , the conditional law of given and is the law restricted to and normalized by . Its CDF on that interval is . The pivot is Borel measurable on the selected data space. Consequently is Uniform conditionally on wherever the normalizer is positive, and is also Uniform conditionally on alone. The event is a single fixed polyhedron; no union-of-polyhedra claim is made.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, known , nonzero fixed , fixed , , and .
The Axiom of Choice is inherited from the Gaussian suppliers. The Axiom of Choice
The polyhedron is exactly the feasible contrast interval with the zero-coefficient feasibility condition, and the interval fibers are Borel. A polyhedral event restricts the contrast to a computable interval
and are independent, and . A Gaussian contrast is independent of its orthogonal residual
Independent random elements have their product joint law. Independent random elements have product joint law
For a joint density relative to a product of sigma-finite measures and a supplied probability filler, the section integral is the marginal density; wherever that integral is finite and positive, the normalized section is a regular conditional distribution, and such sections have full marginal probability. Conditional density formula
The standard normal CDF is continuous and strictly increasing with limits zero and one at the extended endpoints. The standard normal CDF is continuous and strictly increasing
A scalar law for is the image of the standard normal by , so its CDF is . Standard normal and normal laws
The functions and the pivot formula are those defined in the two local definition items. Polyhedral selection event and contrast interval Polyhedral selective normal pivot
Proof
Under , and are independent by [F2], so their joint law is the product of their marginal laws by [F3]. Write and let be the marginal law of . Both are probability measures and hence sigma-finite. By [F1] and [F7], the selection event in these coordinates is the Borel set . For every product-measurable set , conditioning the product law on gives . Thus the selected joint law has this product density.
Put . If fails, the fiber is empty and its section integral is zero. If holds, the section is ; by [F5], [F6], and the endpoint convention in [F7], its -probability is , including a singleton interval and infinite endpoints. Thus the section integral of the selected density is . It is finite because on feasible fibers and . Apply [F4] with filler probability : for almost every selected , , so holds, , and ; the conditional law of is . Fibers with zero section integral have zero selected marginal probability, so their arbitrary extension value in the pivot definition is immaterial.
For , [F6] gives . The denominator is positive exactly on the selected fibers under consideration. The finite max/min formulas make Borel, and [F5] with [F7] makes Borel. On the Borel set of for which , , and , the pivot's numerator and reciprocal denominator are Borel, so the ratio is Borel; the definition extends it by zero on the complement.
Fix such a . The conditional density in step 2.1 is positive throughout the interval and has no atoms; [F5] makes its CDF continuous and strictly increasing from zero to one, including when an endpoint is infinite. For any there is a unique in the interval with , so . At the probability is zero and at it is one because the conditional law has a density. Thus the pivot is uniform given .
Integrating the conditional identity in step 4.1 against the selected marginal law of supplied by [F4] gives for every . Hence the pivot is uniform given as well.
Remarks
The probability guarantee is conditional on the fixed selection event under the stated Gaussian sampling law. It does not establish that the Gaussian model is adequate for data, robustness to model misspecification, or simultaneous validity for several contrasts chosen after observing the data.
Depends on
- Polyhedral selection event and contrast interval
- Polyhedral selective normal pivot
- The standard normal CDF is continuous and strictly increasing
- A polyhedral event restricts the contrast to a computable interval
- A Gaussian contrast is independent of its orthogonal residual
- The Axiom of Choice
- Standard normal and normal laws
- Independent random elements have product joint law
- Conditional density formula
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Sources
- Jason D. Lee, Dennis L. Sun, Yuekai Sun, and Jonathan E. Taylor, Exact Post-Selection Inference, with Application to the Lasso (standard reference, not scraped)
- Daniel García Rasines, LTCC Week 3: Selective Inference (standard reference, not scraped)