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Divergences often play important roles for study in information science so that it is indispensable to investigate their fundamental properties. There is also a mathematical significance of such results. In this paper, we introduce some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-19 S. Furuichi , F. -C. Mitroi

Divergences are quantities that measure discrepancy between two probability distributions and play an important role in various fields such as statistics and machine learning. Divergences are non-negative and are equal to zero if and only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Tomohiro Nishiyama

We examine the estimation of the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence and the use of the goodness-of-fit test for multivariate continuous distributions. Our starting point is the maximum entropy principle for Shannon entropy: among all…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Mehmet Siddik Cadirci , Martin Singull

A kernel density estimator for data on the polysphere $\mathbb{S}^{d_1}\times\cdots\times\mathbb{S}^{d_r}$, with $r,d_1,\ldots,d_r\geq 1$, is presented in this paper. We derive the main asymptotic properties of the estimator, including mean…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-08 Eduardo García-Portugués , Andrea Meilán-Vila

We consider the Fisher-Snedecor diffusion; that is, the Kolmogorov-Pearson diffusion with the Fisher-Snedecor invariant distribution. In the nonstationary setting, we give explicit quantitative rates for the convergence rate of respective…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-18 A. M. Kulik , N. N. Leonenko

We study properties of Fisher distribution (von Mises-Fisher distribution, matrix Langevin distribution) on the rotation group SO(3). In particular we apply the holonomic gradient descent, introduced by Nakayama et al. (2011), and a method…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-05 Tomonari Sei , Hiroki Shibata , Akimichi Takemura , Katsuyoshi Ohara , Nobuki Takayama

We show how Fisher's information already known particular character as the fundamental information geometric object which plays the role of a metric tensor for a statistical differential manifold, can be derived in a relatively easy manner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Masi

New inequalities are proved for the variance of the Pitman estimators (minimum variance equivariant estimators) of \theta constructed from samples of fixed size from populations F(x-\theta). The inequalities are closely related to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Abram M. Kagan , Tinghui Yu , Andrew Barron , Mokshay Madiman

In the present paper, we would like to draw attention to a possible generalized Fisher information that fits well in the formalism of nonextensive thermostatistics. This generalized Fisher information is defined for densities on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 J. -F. Bercher

In optimization, the natural gradient method is well-known for likelihood maximization. The method uses the Kullback-Leibler divergence, corresponding infinitesimally to the Fisher-Rao metric, which is pulled back to the parameter space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-26 Anton Mallasto , Tom Dela Haije , Aasa Feragen

Generative modeling over discrete data has recently seen numerous success stories, with applications spanning language modeling, biological sequence design, and graph-structured molecular data. The predominant generative modeling paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Oscar Davis , Samuel Kessler , Mircea Petrache , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Michael Bronstein , Avishek Joey Bose

Through viewing out the literature, many generated distributions took a new special form of probability density function (PDF) in which it is written as a linear combination of n other distributions. Therefore, we define in this paper a new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Therar Kadri , Amina Halat

The ubiquity of integrating detectors in imaging and other applications implies that a variety of real-world data are well modeled as Poisson random variables whose means are in turn proportional to an underlying vector-valued signal of…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-15 Keigo Hirakawa , Patrick J. Wolfe

We show how generalized Gibbs-Shannon entropies can provide new insights on the statistical properties of texts. The universal distribution of word frequencies (Zipf's law) implies that the generalized entropies, computed at the word level,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-15 Eduardo G. Altmann , Laercio Dias , Martin Gerlach

It is well known that any continuous probability density function on $\mathbb{R}^m$ can be approximated arbitrarily well by a finite mixture of normal distributions, provided that the number of mixture components is sufficiently large. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Tin Lok James Ng , Kwok-Kun Kwong

The squared Wasserstein distance is a natural quantity to compare probability distributions in a non-parametric setting. This quantity is usually estimated with the plug-in estimator, defined via a discrete optimal transport problem which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Pierre Roussillon , Flavien Léger , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

We consider a pair of one-parameter (alpha) families of generalized two-qubit determinantal Hilbert-Schmidt probability distributions, p_{alpha}(|rho^{PT}|) and q_{alpha}(|rho|), where rho is a 4 x 4 density matrix, rho^{PT}, its partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Paul B. Slater

This study employs the Riesz-Feller fractional derivative to determine Fisher and Shannon parameters for a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator. By deriving the Riesz fractional derivative of the probability density function, we quantify…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 A. Boumali , K. Zazoua , F. Serdouk

We introduce a comprehensive method for establishing stochastic orders among order statistics in the i.i.d. case. This approach relies on the assumption that the underlying distribution is linked to a reference distribution through a…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-22 Tommaso Lando Idir Arab , Paulo Eduardo Oliveira

This article presents a theoretical study of uncertainty functionals on general measurable spaces. These functionals are fundamental in experimental design and global sensitivity analysis, where they are used to quantify variability and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Julien Bect , Xujia Zhu