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Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

Near-Gaussian probability densities are common in many important physical applications. Here we develop an asymptotic expansion methodology for computing entropic functionals for such densities. The expansion proposed is a close relative of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Gordon V. Chavez , Richard Kleeman

This article presents a neural network approach for estimating the covariance function of spatial Gaussian random fields defined in a portion of the Euclidean plane. Our proposal builds upon recent contributions, expanding from the purely…

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As well as the galaxy number density and peculiar velocity, the galaxy intrinsic alignment can be used to test the cosmic isotropy. We study distinctive impacts of the isotropy breaking on the configuration-space two-point correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Maresuke Shiraishi , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu

High angular resolution diffusion imaging data is the observed characteristic function for the local diffusion of water molecules in tissue. This data is used to infer structural information in brain imaging. Nonparametric scalar measures…

Applications · Statistics 2011-08-17 Sofia C. Olhede , Brandon Whitcher

Analysis of geostatistical data is often based on the assumption that the spatial random field is isotropic. This assumption, if erroneous, can adversely affect model predictions and statistical inference. Nowadays many applications…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-30 Indranil Sahoo , Joseph Guinness , Brian J. Reich

Both numerical simulations and observational evidence indicate that the outer regions of galaxies and dark matter haloes are typically mildly to significantly radially anisotropic. The inner regions can be significantly non-isotropic,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Baes , E. Van Hese

Profile likelihoods are rarely used in geostatistical models due to the computational burden imposed by repeated decompositions of large variance matrices. Accounting for uncertainty in covariance parameters can be highly consequential in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-04 Ruoyong Xu , Patrick Brown

In nonparametric regression problems involving multiple predictors, there is typically interest in estimating an anisotropic multivariate regression surface in the important predictors while discarding the unimportant ones. Our focus is on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati , David Dunson

In this work, we study non-parametric estimation of joint probabilities of a given set of discrete and continuous random variables from their (empirically estimated) 2D marginals, under the assumption that the joint probability could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shaan ul Haque , Ajit Rajwade , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy

Given a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables, a novel nonparametric maximum entropy method is presented to estimate the underlying continuous univariate probability density function (pdf). Estimates are found…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Jenny Farmer , Donald J. Jacobs

Strict stationarity is a common assumption used in the time series literature in order to derive asymptotic distributional results for second-order statistics, like sample autocovariances and sample autocorrelations. Focusing on weak…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Yunyi Zhang , Efstathios Paparoditis , Dimitris N. Politis

The density ratio of two probability distributions is one of the fundamental tools in mathematical and computational statistics and machine learning, and it has a variety of known applications. Therefore, density ratio estimation from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-28 Masanari Kimura , Howard Bondell

In this article, we propose two classes of relative information measures based on extropy, viz., the generalized extropy similarity ratio (GESR) and generalized extropy divergence ratio (GEDR), that measure the similarity and discrepancy…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-20 Saranya P. , Sunoj S. M

In real flocks, it was revealed that the angular density of nearest neighbors shows a strong {\it anisotropic structure} of individuals by very recent extensive field studies by Ballerini et al [{\it Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-04-23 Motohiro Makiguchi , Jun-ichi Inoue

Statistical anisotropy in the nanohertz-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB) is expected to be detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) in the near future. By developing a frequentist statistical framework that intrinsically…

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We propose and study quantitative measures of smoothness which are adapted to anisotropic features such as edges in images or shocks in PDE's. These quantities govern the rate of approximation by adaptive finite elements, when no constraint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Albert Cohen

The paper considers so-called adaptive estimations of regression, distribution density and spectral density of a Gaussian stationary sequence, asymptotically optimal in order at a growing number of observation on any regular subspace…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eugene Ostrovsky , Leonid Sirota

We propose a nonparametric estimator of multivariate joint entropy based on partitioned sample spacing (PSS). The method extends univariate spacing ideas to $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ by partitioning into localized cells and aggregating within-cell…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jungwoo Ho , Sangun Park , Soyeong Oh

This work develops a unified framework for inferring, representing, and statistically characterizing an anisotropic strength surface directly from molecular dynamics data. Large-scale tensile loading simulations are used to generate failure…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 Alexander Bonacci , John Dolbow , Johann Guilleminot