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We use the hemisphere comparison method to test the isotropy of the SnIa absolute magnitudes of the Pantheon+ and SH0ES samples in various redshift/distance bins. We compare the identified levels of anisotropy in each bin with Monte-Carlo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Leandros Perivolaropoulos

We test the isotropy of the Hubble diagram. At small redshifts, this is possible without assumptions on the cosmic inventory and provides a fundamental test of the cosmological principle. At higher redshift we check for the self-consistency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 Dominik J. Schwarz , Bastian Weinhorst

In this paper, we obtain a new characterization result for symmetric distributions based on the entropy measure. Using the characterization, we propose a nonparametric test to test the symmetry of a distribution. We also develop the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ganesh Vishnu Avhad , Ananya Lahiri , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

We have presented a new axiomatic derivation of Shannon Entropy for a discrete probability distribution on the basis of the postulates of additivity and concavity of the entropy function.We have then modified shannon entropy to take account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Chakrabarti , Indranil Chakrabarty

The two-point angular correlation function is a traditional method used to search for deviations from expectations of isotropy. In this paper we develop and explore a statistically descriptive three-point method with the intended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 J. D. Hague , B. R. Becker , M. S. Gold , J. A. J. Matthews

We quantify the degree of inhomogeneity in the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) distribution from the SDSS DR7 as a function of length scales by measuring the Shannon entropy in independent and regular cubic voxels of increasing grid sizes. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Biswajit Pandey , Suman Sarkar

We introduce the problem of \emph{entropy equivalence testing} for probability distributions, a relaxation of the well-studied closeness testing problem, where the distribution testing algorithm is now only required to distinguish, given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Clément L. Canonne , Yash Pote , Jonathan Scarlett , Joy Qiping Yang

Reliable data-driven estimation of Shannon entropy from small data sets, where the number of examples is potentially smaller than the number of possible outcomes, is a critical matter in several applications. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel F. A. Bastos , Jugurta Montalvão

We propose several pseudoentropy measures that agree well with the Wehrl entropy, but are significantly faster to compute. All of them are rotationally invariant measures of entanglement very sensitive to non-Gaussianity, anisotropy, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Momchil Minkov , Marvin Pinkwart , Peter Schupp

We explore the relation between entanglement entropy of quantum many body systems and the distribution of corresponding, properly selected, observables. Such a relation is necessary to actually measure the entanglement entropy. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Israel Klich , Gil Refael , Alessandro Silva

This paper proposes parametric and non-parametric hypothesis testing algorithms for detecting anisotropy -- rotational variance of the covariance function in random fields. Both algorithms are based on resampling mechanisms, which enable…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-08 Assaf Rabinowicz , Saharon Rosset

We present a novel approach to disentangle two key contributions to the largest-scale anisotropy of the galaxy distribution: (i) the intrinsic dipole due to clustering and anisotropic geometry, and (ii) the kinematic dipole due to our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 Tobias Nadolny , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz , Hamsa Padmanabhan

We use information entropy to analyze the anisotropy in the mock galaxy catalogues from dark matter distribution and simulated biased galaxy distributions from $\Lambda$CDM N-body simulation. We show that one can recover the linear bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 Biswajit Pandey

Cosmography can be used to constrain the kinematics of universe in a model-independent way. In this work, we attempted to combine the Pad$\rm \acute{e}$ approximations with the latest Pantheon+ sample for testing cosmological principle.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Jianping Hu , Jian Hu , Xuandong Jia , Baoquan Gao , Fayin Wang

We test the isotropy of the expansion of the Universe by estimating the hemispherical anisotropy of supernova type Ia (SN Ia) Hubble diagrams at low redshifts (z<0.2). We compare the best fit Hubble diagrams in pairs of hemispheres and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-25 Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Dominik J. Schwarz , Marina Seikel , Alexander Wiegand

The problem of Shannon entropy estimation in countable infinite alphabets is addressed from the study and use of convergence results of the entropy functional, which is known to be discontinuous with respect to the total variation distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Jorge F. Silva

A method for estimating the Shannon differential entropy of multidimensional random variables using independent samples is described. The method is based on decomposing the distribution into a product of the marginal distributions and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Gil Ariel , Yoram Louzoun

In many statistical studies, the measure of uncertainties like entropy, extropy, varentropy and varextropy of a distribution function is of prime interest. This paper proposes estimators of extropy and varextropy. Proposed estimators are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Santosh Kumar Chaudhary , Nitin Gupta

We propose and implement a novel, robust, and non-parametric test of statistical isotropy of the expansion of the universe, and apply it to around one thousand type Ia supernovae from the Pantheon sample. We calculate the angular clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-24 John Soltis , Arya Farahi , Dragan Huterer , C. Michael Liberato

We discuss some details regarding the method of smoothed residuals, which has recently been used to search for anisotropic signals in low-redshift distance measurements (Supernovae). In this short note we focus on some details regarding the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Stephen Appleby , Arman Shafieloo