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The probability density function (PDF) of a random variable associated with the solution of a partial differential equation (PDE) with random parameters is approximated using a truncated series expansion. The random PDE is solved using two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Giacomo Capodaglio , Max Gunzburger , Henry P. Wynn

In this paper we demonstrate that multi-modal Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) may be efficiently sampled using an algorithm originally developed for numerical integrations by Monte-Carlo methods. This algorithm can be used to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. J. Abraham , L. M. Haines

CDF2PDF is a method of PDF estimation by approximating CDF. The original idea of it was previously proposed in [1] called SIC. However, SIC requires additional hyper-parameter tunning, and no algorithms for computing higher order derivative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-17 Shengdong Zhang

Using a suite of self-similar cosmological simulations, we measure the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of real-space density, redshift-space density, and their geometric mean. We find that the real-space density PDF is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Huanqing Chen , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Philip Mansfield

While the problem of estimating a probability density function (pdf) from its observations is classical, the estimation under additional shape constraints is both important and challenging. We introduce an efficient, geometric approach for…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-05 Sutanoy Dasgupta , Debdeep Pati , Ian H. Jermyn , Anuj Srivastava

Spatio-temporally extended nonlinear systems often exhibit a remarkable complexity in space and time. In many cases, extensive datasets of such systems are difficult to obtain, yet needed for a range of applications. Here, we present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Sinhuber , J. Friedrich , R. Grauer , M. Wilczek

We derive the sampling probability density function (pdf) of an ideal localized random electromagnetic field, its amplitude and intensity in an electromagnetic environment that is quasi-statically time-varying statistically homogeneous or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. R. Arnaut

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

We introduce a new functional representation of probability density functions (PDFs) of non-negative random variables via a product of a monomial factor and linear combinations of decaying exponentials with complex exponents. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Gregory Beylkin , Lucas Monzon , Ignas Satkauskas

Stimulated by the need of describing useful notions related to information measures, we introduce the `pdf-related distributions'. These are defined in terms of transformation of absolutely continuous random variables through their own…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Antonio Di Crescenzo , Luca Paolillo , Alfonso Suarez-Llorens

Methods for generating new distributions from old can be thought of as techniques for simplifying integrals used in reverse. Hence integrating a probability density function (pdf) by parts provides a new way of modifying distributions; the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Rose Baker

Experimental data in particle and nuclear physics, particle astrophysics, and radiation protection dosimetry are collected using experimental facilities that consist of a complex system of sensors, electronics, and software. Measured…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-04 Nikolay D. Gagunashvili

In many areas of applied statistics and machine learning, generating an arbitrary number of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples from a given distribution is a key task. When the distribution is known only through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

The need to analyze the available large synoptic multi-band surveys drives the development of new data-analysis methods. Photometric redshift estimation is one field of application where such new methods improved the results, substantially.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Antonio D'Isanto , Kai Lars Polsterer

A step by step procedure to derive analytically the exact dynamical evolution equations of the probability density functions (PDF) of well known kinetic wealth exchange economic models is shown. This technique gives a dynamical insight into…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-20 Xavier Calbet , Jose-Luis Lopez , Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

The question of how best to estimate a continuous probability density from finite data is an intriguing open problem at the interface of statistics and physics. Previous work has argued that this problem can be addressed in a natural way…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-07-16 Justin B. Kinney

The class of location-scale finite mixtures is of enduring interest both from applied and theoretical perspectives of probability and statistics. We prove the following results: to an arbitrary degree of accuracy, (a) location-scale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-26 TrungTin Nguyen , Faicel Chamroukhi , Hien D Nguyen , Geoffrey J McLachlan

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

Reliable density estimation is fundamental for numerous applications in statistics and machine learning. In many practical scenarios, data are best modeled as mixtures of component densities that capture complex and multimodal patterns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mustafa Musab , Joseph K. Chege , Arie Yeredor , Martin Haardt

We review various methods used to estimate uncertainties in quantum correlation functions, such as parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using a toy model of a PDF, we compare the uncertainty estimates yielded by the traditional Hessian and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 N. T. Hunt-Smith , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas , M. J. White