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We introduce a new transformation called \emph{relative differential-escort}, which extends the usual differential-escort transformation by relating the change of variable to a reference probability density. As an application of it, we…

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Assessing homogeneity of distributions is an old problem that has received considerable attention, especially in the nonparametric Bayesian literature. To this effect, we propose the semi-hierarchical Dirichlet process, a novel hierarchical…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-17 Mario Beraha , Alessandra Guglielmi , Fernando A. Quintana

In previous work the authors defined the k-th order simplicial distance between probability distributions which arises naturally from a measure of dispersion based on the squared volume of random simplices of dimension k. This theory is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Luc Pronzato , Henry Wynn , Anatoly Zhigljavsky

We approximate a given rational spectral density by one that is consistent with prescribed second-order statistics. Such an approximation is obtained by minimizing a suitable distance from the given spectrum and under the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Mattia Zorzi

In this paper, we investigate super robust estimation approaches, which generate a reliable estimation even when the noise observations are more than half in an experiment. The following preliminary research results on super robustness are…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-17 Qinghuai Gao

The logarithmic divergence is an extension of the Bregman divergence motivated by optimal transport and a generalized convex duality, and satisfies many remarkable properties. Using the geometry induced by the logarithmic divergence, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Amanjit Singh Kainth , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Frank Rudzicz

Analyzing polytomous response from a complex survey scheme, like stratified or cluster sampling is very crucial in several socio-economics applications. We present a class of minimum quasi weighted density power divergence estimators for…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-05 Elena Castilla , Abhik Ghosh , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

We introduce and analyze a new family of first-order optimization algorithms which generalizes and unifies both mirror descent and dual averaging. Within the framework of this family, we define new algorithms for constrained optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Anatoli Juditsky , Joon Kwon , Éric Moulines

Dempster-Shafer theory is widely applied in uncertainty modelling and knowledge reasoning due to its ability of expressing uncertain information. A distance between two basic probability assignments(BPAs) presents a measure of performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Meizhu Li , Qi Zhang , Xinyang Deng , Yong Deng

We describe a framework to build distances by measuring the tightness of inequalities, and introduce the notion of proper statistical divergences and improper pseudo-divergences. We then consider the H\"older ordinary and reverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Frank Nielsen , Ke Sun , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

A new family of distribution is proposed by using Kumaraswamy-G (Cordeiro and de Castro, 2011) distribution as the base line distribution in the Generalized Marshal-Olkin (Jayakumar and Mathew, 2008) Construction. A number of special cases…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Laba Handique , Subrata Chakraborty

We propose a family of near-metrics based on local graph diffusion to capture similarity for a wide class of data sets. These quasi-metametrics, as their names suggest, dispense with one or two standard axioms of metric spaces, specifically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-18 Chu Wang , Iraj Saniee , William S. Kennedy , Chris A. White

This paper develops a new family of estimators, the minimum density power divergence estimators (MDPDEs), for the parameters of the one-shot device model as well as a new family of test statistics, Z-type test statistics based on MDPDEs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-27 N. Balakrishnan , E. Castilla , N. Martin , L. Pardo

For a semisimple Lie group $G$ satisfying the equal rank condition, the most basic family of unitary irreducible representations is the Discrete Series found by Harish-Chandra. In this paper, we continue our study of the branching laws for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Bent Ørsted , Jorge A. Vargas

Let $\mathbb{H}$ be the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group. That $\mathbb{H}$ supports a rich family of quasiconformal mappings was demonstrated by Kor\'{a}nyi and Reimann using the so-called flow method. Here we supply further evidence of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Alex D. Austin

While recent work has established divergence as a key framework for understanding evenness, there is currently no research exploring how the families of measures within the divergence-based framework relate to each other. This paper uses…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-03 Kawika Pierson

The directed L-distance minimal dominating set (MDS) problem has wide practical applications in the fields of computer science and communication networks. Here, we study this problem from the perspective of purely theoretical interest. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-10 Yusupjan Habibulla

Several probability distributions have been proposed in the literature, especially with the aim of obtaining models that are more flexible relative to the behaviors of the density and hazard rate functions. Recently, a new generalization of…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-26 K. V. P. Barco , J. Mazucheli , V. Janeiro

We propose a new class of metrics on sets, vectors, and functions that can be used in various stages of data mining, including exploratory data analysis, learning, and result interpretation. These new distance functions unify and generalize…