English
Related papers

Related papers: Generalised shape theory via pseudo-Wishart distri…

200 papers

Diffusion probabilistic models excel at sampling new images from learned distributions. Originally motivated by drift-diffusion concepts from physics, they apply image perturbations such as noise and blur in a forward process that results…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Pascal Peter

Non-Gaussian shapes, despite a linear form of the mean-squared displacement, have been observed for the displacement distribution in a large range of diffusive systems. Stochastic models for such "Brownian yet non-Gaussian" diffusion will…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-05 R. Metzler , A. V. Chechkin

This paper presents an alternative formulation of the geodesic normal distribution on the sphere, building on the work of Hauberg (2018). While the isotropic version of this distribution is naturally defined on the sphere, the anisotropic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-25 José E. Chacón , Andrea Meilán-Vila

A new family of distributions indexed by the class of matrix variate contoured elliptically distribution is proposed as an extension of some bimatrix variate distributions. The termed \emph{multimatrix variate distributions} open new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-07 José A. Díaz-García , Francisco J. Caro-Lopera

Circular and non-flat data distributions are prevalent across diverse domains of data science, yet their specific geometric structures often remain underutilized in machine learning frameworks. A principled approach to accounting for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-25 Thibault de Surrel , Fabien Lotte , Sylvain Chevallier , Florian Yger

In this article we introduce a generalization of the Newton transformation to the case of a system of endomorphisms. We show that it can be used in the context of extrinsic geometry of foliations and distributions yielding new integral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Krzysztof Andrzejewski , Wojciech Kozlowski , Kamil Niedzialomski

The density-distribution method has recently become a promising paradigm owing to its adaptability to variations in swarm size. However, existing studies face practical challenges in achieving complex shape representation and decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yichen Cai , Yuan Gao , Pengpeng Li , Wei Wang , Guibin Sun , Jinhu Lü

Copulas, generalized estimating equations, and generalized linear mixed models promote the analysis of grouped data where non-normal responses are correlated. Unfortunately, parameter estimation remains challenging in these three…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-16 Sarah S. Ji , Benjamin B. Chu , Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

The G-Wishart distribution is an essential component for the Bayesian analysis of Gaussian graphical models as the conjugate prior for the precision matrix. Evaluating the marginal likelihood of such models usually requires computing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-11 Ching Wong , Giusi Moffa , Jack Kuipers

Based on the probability distribution observed in complex systems and an assumption that the probability distributions of complex systems satisfy a new generalized multiplication, it is proved that the statistical theory of complex systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jincan Chen , Tie Liu , Zhifu Huang , Guozhen Su

There is a difficulty in finding an estimate of variance of the profile likelihood estimator in the joint model of longitudinal and survival data. We solve the difficulty by introducing the ``statistical generalized derivative''. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Yuichi Hirose , Ivy Liu

Gaussian graphical models have received considerable attention during the past four decades from the statistical and machine learning communities. In Bayesian treatments of this model, the G-Wishart distribution serves as the conjugate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Caroline Uhler , Alex Lenkoski , Donald Richards

We formulate a class of angular Gaussian distributions that allows different degrees of isotropy for directional random variables of arbitrary dimension. Through a series of novel reparameterization, this distribution family is indexed by…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-13 Zehao Yu , Xianzheng Huang

This paper presents a new derivation of the Generalized Poisson distribution. This distribution provides a good fit to the evolved, counts-in-cells distribution measured in numerical simulations of hierarchical clustering from Poisson…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ravi K. Sheth

The popular generalized additive model framework is extended to allow both the mean curves and the response distribution to be nonparametric. The approach is demonstrated to be a flexible yet parsimonious tool for data analysis in its own…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-18 Alan Huang , Nanxi Zhang

Based on the normal distribution and its properties, i.e., average and variance, Fisher works have provided a conceptual framework to identify genotype-phenotype associations. While Fisher intuition has proved fruitful over the past…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Cyril Rauch , Panagiota Kyratzi , Andras Paldi

The characteristic function of the folded normal distribution and its moment function are derived. The entropy of the folded normal distribution and the Kullback--Leibler from the normal and half normal distributions are approximated using…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-17 Michail Tsagris , Christina Beneki , Hossein Hassani

We develop technique concerning statistical analyses of the large-scale structure of the universe in the presence of biasing in the structure formation. We formulate the diagrammatic method to calculate the correlation functions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Takahiko Matsubara

Elliptically contoured distributions generalize the multivariate normal distributions in such a way that the density generators need not be exponential. However, as the name suggests, elliptically contoured distributions remain to be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Hidehiko Kamiya

The envelope of an elliptical Gaussian complex vector, or equivalently, the amplitude or norm of a bivariate normal random vector has application in many weather and signal processing contexts. We explicitly characterize its distribution in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Sattwik Ghosal , Ranjan Maitra