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We introduce a new statistical quantity the energy to test whether two samples originate from the same distributions. The energy is a simple logarithmic function of the distances of the observations in the variate space. The distribution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guenter Zech , Berkan Aslan

Given a set of sequences, the distance between pairs of them helps us to find their similarity and derive structural relationship amongst them. For genomic sequences such measures make it possible to construct the evolution tree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Sandeep Hosangadi

There are numerous randomized algorithms to generate spanning trees in a given ambient graph; several target the uniform distribution on trees (UST), while in practice the fastest and most frequently used draw random weights on the edges…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Eric Babson , Moon Duchin , Annina Iseli , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Dylan Thurston , Jamie Tucker-Foltz

The log-normal distribution is used to describe the positive data, that it has skewed distribution with small mean and large variance. This distribution has application in many sciences for example medicine, economics, biology and…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-10 Saba Aghadoust , Kamel Abdollahnezhad , Farhad Yaghmaei , Ali Akbar Jafari

We propose a non-parametric regression methodology, Random Forests on Distance Matrices (RFDM), for detecting genetic variants associated to quantitative phenotypes representing the human brain's structure or function, and obtained using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-25 Aaron Sim , Dimosthenis Tsagkrasoulis , Giovanni Montana

CONTEXT. Attack treesare a recommended threat modeling tool, but there is no established method to compare them. OBJECTIVE. We aim to establish a method to compare "real" attack trees, based on both the structure of the tree itself and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nathan D. Schiele , Olga Gadyatskaya

We present a simple yet rigorous approach to the determination of the spectral dimension of random trees, based on the study of the massless limit of the Gaussian model on such trees. As a byproduct, we obtain evidence in favor of a new…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Destri , L. Donetti

We consider a Galton-Watson tree where each node is marked independently of each others with a probability depending on itsout-degree. Using a penalization method, we exhibit new martingales where the number of marks up to level n -- 1…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Romain Abraham , Sonia Boulal , Pierre Debs

This paper investigates a statistical procedure for testing the equality of two independent estimated covariance matrices when the number of potentially dependent data vectors is large and proportional to the size of the vectors, that is,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Rémy Mariétan , Stephan Morgenthaler

We consider a particle system in continuous time, discrete population, with spatial motion and nonlocal branching. The offspring's weights and their number may depend on the mother's weight. Our setting captures, for instance, the processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Bertrand Cloez

Rooted and ranked binary trees are mathematical objects of great importance used to model hierarchical data and evolutionary relationships with applications in many fields including evolutionary biology and genetic epidemiology. Bayesian…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-08 Samyak Rajanala , Julia A. Palacios

It is an open question whether there exists a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the rotation distances between pairs of extended ordered binary trees. The problem of computing the rotation distance between an arbitrary pair of trees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Sean Cleary , Roland Maio

We prove non-asymptotic stretched exponential tail bounds on the height of a randomly sampled node in a random combinatorial tree, which we use to prove bounds on the heights and widths of random trees from a variety of models. Our results…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Louigi Addario-Berry , Anna Brandenberger , Jad Hamdan , Céline Kerriou

The trace $\tr(q(\ma{L} + q\ma{I})^{-1})$, where $\ma{L}$ is a symmetric diagonally dominant matrix, is the quantity of interest in some machine learning problems. However, its direct computation is impractical if the matrix size is large.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Yusuf Yigit Pilavci , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Simon Barthelme , Nicolas Tremblay

A common method for deriving non-parametric tests is to reformulate a parametric test in terms of sample ranks. Despite being distribution free (even in finite samples), the resulting tests often display remarkable asymptotic power…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Dan D. Erdmann-Pham , Jonathan Terhorst , Yun S. Song

The time process of transport on randomly evolving trees is investigated. By introducing the notions of living and dead nodes a model of random tree evolution is constructed which describes the spreading in time of objects corresponding to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Pal

In this paper, we develop a simple non-parametric test for testing normal distribution based on the distance between empirical zero-bias transformation and empirical distribution. The asymptotic properties of the test statistic are studied.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Sudheesh Kattumannil

The Galton--Watson process is the simplest example of a branching process. The relationship between the offspring distribution, and, when the extinction occurs almost surely, the distribution of the total progeny is well known. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Claudio Macci , Barbara Pacchiarotti

The paper discusses a statistical problem related to testing for differences between two sparse networks with community structures. The community-wise edge probability matrices have entries of order $O(n^{-1}/\log n)$, where $n$ represents…

Applications · Statistics 2023-04-04 Qianyong Wu , Jiang Hu

The prevailing mindset is that a single decision tree underperforms classic random forests in testing accuracy, despite its advantages in interpretability and lightweight structure. This study challenges such a mindset by significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Qiangqiang Mao , Yankai Cao