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Probability theory has become the predominant framework for quantifying uncertainty across scientific and engineering disciplines, with a particular focus on measurement and control systems. However, the widespread reliance on simple…

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Time series analysis allows for the determination of the Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Probability Density Function (PDF) for astrophysical sources. The former of these illustrates the distribution of power at various timescales,…

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For a twice continuously differentiable function $S$, we define the density function of its gradient (derivative in one dimension) $s = S^{\prime}$ as a random variable transformation of a uniformly distributed random variable using $s$ as…

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We introduce a new approximate multiresolution analysis (MRA) using a single Gaussian as the scaling function, which we call Gaussian MRA (GMRA). As an initial application, we employ this new tool to accurately and efficiently compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Gregory Beylkin , Lucas Monzon , Ignas Satkauskas

Importance sampling, which involves sampling from a probability density function (PDF) proportional to the product of an importance weight function and a base PDF, is a powerful technique with applications in variance reduction, biased or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Heasung Kim , Taekyun Lee , Hyeji Kim , Gustavo de Veciana

Based on the canonical correlation analysis we derive series representations of the probability density function (PDF) and the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the information density of arbitrary Gaussian random vectors as well as…

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Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

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In this paper we focus on the linear functionals defining an approximate version of the gradient of a function. These functionals are often used when dealing with optimization problems where the computation of the gradient of the objective…

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The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the matter density field in the universe is a fundamental property that plays an essential role in cosmology for estimates such as gravitational weak lensing, non-linear clustering,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Franco D. Albareti

We use the spherical collapse (SC) approximation to derive expressions for the smoothed redshift-space probability distribution function (PDF), as well as the $p$-order hierarchical amplitudes $S_p$, in both real and redshift space. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robert J. Scherrer , Enrique Gaztanaga

A probability density function (PDF) of a spatially dependent field provides a means of calculating moments of the field or, equivalently, the proportion of a spatial domain that is mapped to a given set of values. This paper describes a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-10 Paul M. Mannix , David A. Ham , John Craske

We report a first study of time-dependent Probability Density Functions (PDFs) in the Low-to- High confinement mode (L-H) transition by extending the previous prey-predator-type model (Kim & Diamond, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185006, 2003) to a…

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In this work, an integrated performance evaluation of a decode-and-forward (DF) multi-hop wireless communication system is undertaken over the non-linear generalized $\alpha-\kappa-\mu$ and $\alpha-\kappa-\mu$-Extreme fading models.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tau Raphael Rasethuntsa , Sandeep Kumar , Manpreet Kaur

In the context of functional data analysis, probability density functions as non-negative functions are characterized by specific properties of scale invariance and relative scale which enable to represent them with the unit integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Jitka Machalova , Renata Talska , Karel Hron , Ales Gaba

Bayesian estimation strategies represent the most fundamental formulation of the state estimation problem available, and apply readily to nonlinear systems with non-Gaussian uncertainties. The present paper introduces a novel method for…

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We obtain an expression for the probability density function (PDF) of partially developed speckles formed by light with an arbitrary degree of polarization. From the probability density we calculate the detection threshold corresponding to…

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A method to approximate continuous multi-dimensional probability density functions (PDFs) using their projections and correlations is described. The method is particularly useful for event classification when estimates of systematic…

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We analyze different volume-limited samples extracted from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2), using counts-in-cells to compute the Count Probability Distribution Function (CPDF).From the CPDF we derive volume-averaged correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Benoist , A. Cappi , L. N. da Costa , S. Maurogordato , F. R. Bouchet , R. Schaeffer

We study how primordial non-Gaussianity affects the pairwise velocity probability density function (PDF) using an analytical model and cosmological N-body simulations. We adopt the local type non-Gaussian models characterized by f_{nl}, and…

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