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Christoffel polynomials are classical tools from approximation theory. They can be used to estimate the (compact) support of a measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ based on its low-degree moments. Recently, they have been applied to problems in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Lucas Slot

The accuracy and effectiveness of Hermite spectral methods for the numerical discretization of partial differential equations on unbounded domains, are strongly affected by the amplitude of the Gaussian weight function employed to describe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Lorella Fatone , Daniele Funaro , Gianmarco Manzini

Normalizing flows model a complex target distribution in terms of a bijective transform operating on a simple base distribution. As such, they enable tractable computation of a number of important statistical quantities, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Chandramouli Shama Sastry , Andreas Lehrmann , Marcus Brubaker , Alexander Radovic

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 study the Tauberian relations between the moment generating function (MGF) and the complementary cumulative distribution function of a random variable whose MGF is finite only on part of the real line. We relate the right tail behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Sidi Mohamed Aly

The effective rate of Fluctuating Beckmann (FB) fading channel is analysed. The moment generating function (MGF) of the instantaneous signal-to-noise (SNR) is used first to derive the effective rate for arbitrary values of the fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Hussien Al-Hmood , H. S. Al-Raweshidy

The conjugate phase retrieval problem concerns the determination of a complex-valued function, up to a unimodular constant and conjugation, from its magnitude observations. It can also be considered as a conjugate phaseless sampling and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Yang Chen , Yanan Wang

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

I start by providing an updated summary of the penalized pixel-fitting (pPXF) method, which is used to extract the stellar and gas kinematics, as well as the stellar population of galaxies, via full spectrum fitting. I then focus on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Michele Cappellari

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the fractional Fourier transform driven by its large number of applications. The literature in this field follows two main routes. On the one hand, the areas where the ordinary Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-26 Rafael G. Campos , J. Rico-Melgoza , Edgar Chávez

Prior asymptotic performance analyses are based on the series expansion of the moment-generating function (MGF) or the probability density function (PDF) of channel coefficients. However, these techniques fail for lognormal fading channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Bingcheng Zhu , Julian Cheng , Jun Yan , Jinyuan Wang , Lenan Wu , Yongjin Wang

The Gaussian Kinematic Formula (GKF) is a powerful and computationally efficient tool to perform statistical inference on random fields and became a well-established tool in the analysis of neuroimaging data. Using realistic error models,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-17 Fabian JE Telschow , Samuel Davenport

In this paper, we consider an approximation method, and a novel general analysis, for second-order elliptic differential equations with heterogeneous multiscale coefficients. We obtain convergence of the Generalized Multi-scale Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Eduardo Abreu , Ciro Diaz , Juan Galvis

In this paper, the classical problem of the probabilistic characterization of a random variable is re-examined. A random variable is usually described by the probability density function (PDF) or by its Fourier transform, namely the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 Giulio Cottone , Mario Di Paola

The CGMF code implements the Hauser-Feshbach statistical nuclear reaction model to follow the de-excitation of fission fragments by successive emissions of prompt neutrons and $\gamma$ rays. The Monte Carlo technique is used to facilitate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-09 P. Talou , I. Stetcu , P. Jaffke , M. E. Rising , A. E. Lovell , T. Kawano

Variational inference, such as the mean-field (MF) approximation, requires certain conjugacy structures for efficient computation. These can impose unnecessary restrictions on the viable prior distribution family and further constraints on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Rentian Yao , Yun Yang

This paper introduces a very fast method for the computation of the resolvent of fractional powers of operators. The analysis is kept in the continuous setting of (potentially unbounded) self adjoint positive operators in Hilbert spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Eleonora Denich , Laura Grazia Dolce , Paolo Novati

Sequential quantile estimation refers to incorporating observations into quantile estimates in an incremental fashion thus furnishing an online estimate of one or more quantiles at any given point in time. Sequential quantile estimation is…

Computation · Statistics 2017-03-07 Michael Stephanou , Melvin Varughese , Iain Macdonald

In this paper, we present the definitions and some properties of the general fractional integrals (GFIs) and general fractional derivatives (GFDs) of a function f(x) with respect to another function g(x). Examples of special cases of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Vasily E. Tarasov

We present a new version of the fast Gauss transform (FGT) for discrete and continuous sources. Classical Hermite expansions are avoided entirely, making use only of the plane-wave representation of the Gaussian kernel and a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Manas Rachh , Jun Wang