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The Gaussian graphical model (GGM) incorporates an undirected graph to represent the conditional dependence between variables, with the precision matrix encoding partial correlation between pair of variables given the others. To achieve…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-03 Yueqi Qian , Xianghong Hu , Can Yang

We consider the problem of evaluating the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum of order statistics, which serves to compute outage probability (OP) values at the output of generalized selection combining receivers. Generally,…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-15 Nadhir Ben Rached , Zdravko Botev , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Raul Tempone

To complete a previous work, the probability density functions for the errors in the center-of-gravity as positioning algorithm are derived with the usual methods of the cumulative distribution functions. These methods introduce substantial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-08 Gregorio Landi , Giovanni E. Landi

Context: Two-point correlation functions are used throughout cosmology as a measure for the statistics of random fields. When used in Bayesian parameter estimation, their likelihood function is usually replaced by a Gaussian approximation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-07 David Keitel , Peter Schneider

Functional graphical models explore dependence relationships of random processes. This is achieved through estimating the precision matrix of the coefficients from the Karhunen-Loeve expansion. This paper deals with the problem of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-14 Ilias Moysidis , Bing Li

The distribution of the sum of r-th power of standard normal random variables is a generalization of the chi-squared distribution. In this paper, we represent the probability density function of the random variable by an one-dimensional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Tamio Koyama

The probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function of the sum of L independent but not necessarily identically distributed squared \eta-\mu variates, applicable to the output statistics of maximal ratio combining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Imran Shafique Ansari , Ferkan Yilmaz , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The g-and-k and (generalised) g-and-h distributions are flexible univariate distributions which can model highly skewed or heavy tailed data through only four parameters: location and scale, and two shape parameters influencing the skewness…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-22 Dennis Prangle

The distribution of the sum of dependent risks is a crucial aspect in actuarial sciences, risk management and in many branches of applied probability. In this paper, we obtain analytic expressions for the probability density function (pdf)…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-02 José María Sarabia , Emilio Gómez-Déniz , Faustino Prieto , Vanesa Jordá

In this paper, the joint distribution of the sum and maximum of independent, not necessarily identically distributed, nonnegative random variables is studied for two cases: i) continuous and ii) discrete random variables. First, a recursive…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Christos N. Efrem

A Gaussian process (GP)-based methodology is proposed to emulate complex dynamical computer models (or simulators). The method relies on emulating the numerical flow map of the system over an initial (short) time step, where the flow map is…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-26 Hossein Mohammadi , Peter Challenor , Marc Goodfellow

We introduce an approach to quickly and accurately approximate the cumulative distribution function of multivariate Gaussian distributions arising from spatial Gaussian processes. This approximation is trivially parallelizable and simple to…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-31 Mauricio Nascimento , Benjamin A. Shaby

Bayesian estimation of Gaussian graphical models has proven to be challenging because the conjugate prior distribution on the Gaussian precision matrix, the G-Wishart distribution, has a doubly intractable partition function. Recent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-09-10 Max Hinne , Alex Lenkoski , Tom Heskes , Marcel van Gerven

We develop a numerical framework to implement the cumulative density function (CDF) method for obtaining the probability distribution of the system state described by a kinematic wave model. The approach relies on Monte Carlo Simulations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Ming Cheng , Yi Qin , Akil Narayan , Xinghui Zhong , Xueyu Zhu , Peng Wang

We consider the distribution of the sum and the maximum of a collection of independent exponentially distributed random variables. The focus is laid on the explicit form of the density functions (pdf) of non-i.i.d. sequences. Those are…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Markus Bibinger

Order statistics find applications in various areas of communications and signal processing. In this paper, we introduce an unified analytical framework to determine the joint statistics of partial sums of ordered random variables (RVs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-19 Sung Sik Nam , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Hong-Chuan Yang

To complete a previous paper, the probability density functions of the center-of-gravity as positioning algorithm are derived with classical methods. These methods, as suggested by the textbook of Probability, require the preliminary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-05 Gregorio Landi , Giovanni E. Landi

Using the spectral resolution of the multiplication operator on the Schwartz class of $L^2(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{C})$, we compute the characteristic function of the cube of a Gaussian random variable.

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Function computation of arbitrarily correlated discrete sources over Gaussian networks with orthogonal components is studied. Two classes of functions are considered: the arithmetic sum function and the type function. The arithmetic sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Sang-Woon Jeon , Chien-Yi Wang , Michael Gastpar