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In classical density (or density-functional) estimation, it is standard to assume that the underlying distribution has a density with respect to the Lebesgue measure. However, when the data distribution is a mixture of continuous and…

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If two random variables X and A are functionally related via f(X)=A for some strictly monotone continuously differentiable function f:R->R, the distribution of X may easily be computed from the distribution of A.

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Logistic equations play a pivotal role in the study of any non linear evolution process exhibiting growth and saturation. The interest for the phenomenology, they rule, goes well beyond physical processes and cover many aspects of ecology,…

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