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Stein operators are differential operators which arise within the so-called Stein's method for stochastic approximation. We propose a new mechanism for constructing such operators for arbitrary (continuous or discrete) parametric…

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In a recent paper, Gaunt 2020 extended Stein's method to limit distributions that can be represented as a function $g:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ of a centered multivariate normal random vector $\Sigma^{1/2}\mathbf{Z}$ with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Robert E. Gaunt , Heather Sutcliffe

In this study, a numerical quadrature for the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution is derived from the Gauss-Hermite quadrature by exploiting its relationship with the normal distribution. The proposed quadrature is not Gaussian, but…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-16 Jaehyuk Choi , Yeda Du , Qingshuo Song

General hypergeometric distribution (GHGD) describes the following distribution: from a finite space containing N elements, select T subsets with each subset contains M[i] (T-1 >= i >= 0) elements, what is the probability that exactly x…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Xing-gang Mao , Xiao-yan Xue

We build on the formalism developed in [arXiv:1906.08372v1] to propose new representations of solutions to Stein equations. We provide new uniform and non uniform bounds on these solutions (a.k.a.\ Stein factors). We use these…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Marie Ernst , Yvik Swan

The variance-gamma (VG) distributions form a four parameter family that includes as special and limiting cases the normal, gamma and Laplace distributions. Some of the numerous applications include financial modelling and approximation on…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Robert E. Gaunt

Stein's (1972) method is a very general tool for assessing the quality of approximation of the distribution of a random element by another, often simpler, distribution. In applications of Stein's method, one needs to establish a Stein…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew D. Barbour , Vydas Cekanavicius , Aihua Xia

Stein's method (Stein, 1973; 1981) is a powerful tool for statistical applications and has significantly impacted machine learning. Stein's lemma plays an essential role in Stein's method. Previous applications of Stein's lemma either…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Wu Lin , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Mark Schmidt

In this article, we provide a Stein type characterization for $G$-normal distributions: Let $\mathcal{N}[\varphi]=\max_{\mu\in\Theta}\mu[\varphi],\ \varphi\in C_{b,Lip}(\mathbb{R}),$ be a sublinear expectation. $\mathcal{N}$ is $G$-normal…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Mingshang Hu , Shige Peng , Yongsheng Song

In this paper, we extend Stein's method to products of independent beta, gamma, generalised gamma and mean zero normal random variables. In particular, we obtain Stein operators for mixed products of these distributions, which include the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Robert E. Gaunt

In the present paper a generalization of Gurland distribution [3] is obtained as a beta mixture of the generalized Poisson distribution (GPD) of Consul and Jain [2]. The first two moments of the distribution and a recurrence relation among…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Yashwant Singh

General hypergeometric distribution (GHGD) definition: from a finite space $N$ containing $n$ elements, randomly select totally $T$ subsets $M_i$ (each contains $m_i$ elements, $1 \geq i \geq T$), what is the probability that exactly $x$…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Xing-gang Mao , Xiao-yan Xue

The generalized gamma distribution shows up in many problems related to engineering, hydrology as well as survival analysis. Earlier work has been done that estimated the deviation of the exponential and the Weibull distribution from…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Zelong Bi , Irfan Durmić , Steven J. Miller

In this article, we obtain the exact distribution of a linear combination of bilateral gamma (BG) random variables (r.v.s). Next, we discuss the distributional properties of the linear combination of BG r.v.s, including probability density…

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We study a new class of time inhomogeneous P\'olya-type urn schemes and give optimal rates of convergence for the distribution of the properly scaled number of balls of a given color to nearly the full class of generalized gamma…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Erol A. Peköz , Adrian Röllin , Nathan Ross

Let $ k >0 $ be an integer and $ Y $ a standard Gamma$(k)$ distributed random variable. Let $ X $ be an independent positive random variable with a density that is hyperbolically monotone (HM) of order $ k.$ Then $Y\cdot X$ and $Y/X $ both…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Anita Behme , Lennart Bondesson

A mixture of variance-gamma distributions is introduced and developed for model-based clustering and classification. The latest in a growing line of non-Gaussian mixture approaches to clustering and classification, the proposed mixture of…

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In this paper, we study some aspects on random analysis on the L\'eevy stochastic processes with margins following generalized hyperbolic distributions generated by gamma laws. In particular we study the boundedness of its total variations…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Nafy Ngom , Aladji Babacar Niang , Soumaila Dembele , Gane Samb Lo

In this article, we derive Stein's method for approximating a spatial random graph by a generalised random geometric graph, which has vertices given by a finite Gibbs point process and edges based on a general connection function. Our main…

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