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The notion of probability density for a random function is not as straightforward as in finite-dimensional cases. While a probability density function generally does not exist for functional data, we show that it is possible to develop the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall

Let $X_1,\ldots,X_M$ and $Y_1,\ldots,Y_N$ be independent zero mean normal random variables with variances $\sigma_{X_i}^2$, $i=1,\ldots,M$, and $\sigma_{Y_j}^2$, $j=1,\ldots,N$, respectively, and let $X=X_1\cdots X_M$ and $Y=Y_1\cdots Y_N$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Robert E. Gaunt , Heather L. Sutcliffe

In this paper, the statistical properties of Newton s method algorithm output in a specific case have been studied. The relative frequency density of this sample converges to a well-defined function, prompting us to explore its…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-07-16 Taki Kirouani

We derive the exact probability density function of the product of $N$ independent variance-gamma random variables with zero location parameter. We then apply this formula to derive formulas for the cumulative distribution function and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Robert E. Gaunt , Siqi Li , Heather Sutcliffe

In directed random graphs, in which edges can be assigned to have one of two directions, or perhaps both, the distance between two vertices $v$ and $v'$ can be computed along paths that are directed from $v$ to $v'$, or along paths that are…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-25 A. D. Barbour , Gesine Reinert

We compute a number of distance-dependent universal scaling functions characterizing the distance statistics of large maps of genus one. In particular, we obtain explicitly the probability distribution for the length of the shortest…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 E. Guitter

We consider a sequence of identically independently distributed random samples from an absolutely continuous probability measure in one dimension with unbounded density. We establish a new rate of convergence of the $\infty-$Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Anning Liu , Jian-Guo Liu , Yulong Lu

Some formulae are presented for finding two-integral distribution functions (DFs) which depends only on the two classical integrals of the energy and the magnitude of the angular momentum with respect to the axis of symmetry for stellar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Zhenglu Jiang , Leonid Ossipkov

Among several things, we find the side density for random triangles circumscribing the unit circle and calculate that its median is 5.5482.... An analogous exact computation for perimeter density remains open.

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Steven R. Finch

This letter derives closed-form expressions for the probability density function of the distance between two nodes located in heterogeneous concentric geometries, namely a disk or sphere and a surrounding annulus or spherical shell. Two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Nicholas Vaiopoulos , Alexander Vavoulas , Harilaos G. Sandalidis , Konstantinos K. Delibasis

The quantale of distance distributions is of fundamental importance for understanding probabilistic metric spaces as enriched categories. Motivated by the categorical interpretation of partial metric spaces, we are led to investigate the…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Jialiang He , Hongliang Lai , Lili Shen

Given a triangle ABC, we derive the probability distribution function and the moments of the area of an inscribed triangle RST whose vertices are uniformly distributed on AB, BC, and CA. The theoretical results are confirmed by a Monte…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Arman Maesumi

We examine numerically the distribution function $f_K(r)$ of distance $r$ between opposite polygonal nodes for random polygons of $N$ nodes with a fixed knot type $K$. Here we consider three knots such as $\emptyset$, $3_1$ and $3_1 \sharp…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Akihisa Yao , Hiroshi Tsukahara , Tetsuo Deguchi , Takeo Inami

In various stereological problems an $n$-dimensional convex body is intersected with an $(n-1)$-dimensional Isotropic Uniformly Random (IUR) hyperplane. In this paper the cumulative distribution function associated with the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-21 Thomas van der Jagt , Geurt Jongbloed , Martina Vittorietti

If a line cuts randomly two sides of a triangle, the length of the segment determined by the points of intersection is also random. The object of this study, applied to a particular case, is to calculate the probability that the length of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Jesús Álvarez Lobo

Let $X$ and $Y$ be independent variance-gamma random variables with zero location parameter; then the exact probability density function of the product $XY$ is derived. Some basic distributional properties are also derived, including…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Robert E. Gaunt , Siqi Li

We consider $N$ circles of equal radii, $r$, having their centers randomly placed within a square domain $\mathcal{D}$ of size $L \times L$ with periodic boundary conditions ($\mathcal{D} \in \mathbb{R}^2$). When two or more circles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-23 Renat K. Akhunzhanov , Yuri Yu. Tarasevich , Irina V. Vodolazskaya

Measurements of a weighted energy density average taken in the vacuum state of a conformal field theory in $1+1$ dimensions are randomly distributed with vanishing expectation value. The probability distribution is computed in closed form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Matthew C. Anthony , Christopher J. Fewster

The distributions of the random distances associated with hexagons, rhombuses and triangles have been derived and verified in the existing work. All of these geometric shapes are related to each other and have various applications in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Maryam Ahmadi , Jianping Pan

Three points uniformly selected on the unit circle form a triangle containing a point $X$ at distance $r \in [0; 1]$ from its center with probability $P(r) = \frac{1}{4} - \frac{3}{2 \pi^2}\textrm{Li}_2(r^2)$, where $\textrm{Li}_2$ is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Abdulamin Ismailov