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This paper presents a novel systematic methodology to obtain new simple and tight approximations, lower bounds, and upper bounds for the Gaussian Q-function, and functions thereof, in the form of a weighted sum of exponential functions.…

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We consider the problem of numerically evaluating the expected value of a smooth bounded function of a chi-distributed random variable, divided by the square root of the number of degrees of freedom. This problem arises in the contexts of…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-29 Paul Kabaila , Nishika Ranathunga

In this paper, we further develop the approach, originating in [14 (arXiv:1311.6765),20 (arXiv:1604.02576)], to "computation-friendly" hypothesis testing and statistical estimation via Convex Programming. Specifically, we focus on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Bayesian quantum estimation provides a robust framework for quantum technologies, especially in scenarios with limited data and minimal prior information. Yet, its application to continuous-variable Gaussian systems has remained limited and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Edward Gandar , Jesús Rubio

We develop techniques for determining the exact asymptotic speed of convergence in the multidimensional normal approximation of smooth functions of Gaussian fields. As a by-product, our findings yield exact limits and often give rise to…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Simon Campese

Various types of expansions in series of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials currently used in astrophysics for weakly non-normal distributions are compared, namely the Gram-Charlier, Gauss-Hermite and Edgeworth expansions. It is shown that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Blinnikov , R. Moessner

This paper investigates the approximation of Gaussian random variables in Banach spaces, focusing on the high-probability bounds for the approximation of Gaussian random variables using finitely many observations. We derive non-asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Daniel Winkle , Ingo Steinwart , Bernard Haasdonk

This paper proposes a novel approach to the statistical characterization of non-central complex Gaussian quadratic forms (CGQFs). Its key strategy is the generation of an auxiliary random variable (RV) that converges in distribution to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , Laureano Moreno-Pozas , José F. Paris , José A. Cortés , Eduardo Martos-Naya

In this article we study weighted sums of $n$ i.i.d. Gamma($\alpha$) random variables with nonnegative weights. We show that for $n \geq 1/\alpha$ the sum with equal coefficients maximizes differential entropy when variance is fixed. As a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Maciej Bartczak , Piotr Nayar , Szymon Zwara

There are several cases in wireless communications theory where the statistics of the sum of independent or correlated Nakagami-m random variables (RVs) is necessary to be known. However, a closed-form solution to the distribution of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-06 Nikola Zlatanov , Zoran Hadzi-Velkov , George Karagiannidis

We establish higher-order nonasymptotic expansions for a difference between probability distributions of sums of i.i.d. random vectors in a Euclidean space. The derived bounds are uniform over two classes of sets: the set of all Euclidean…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mayya Zhilova

Computable solutions for expectations of Continuous Ranked Probability Scores are presented. After deriving a scale invariant version of these scores, a closed form for the convolutions of scores is presented. This closed form enables the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-20 Tina Nane , Roger Cooke

This note presents sharp inequalities for deviation probability of a general quadratic form of a random vector \(\xiv\) with finite exponential moments. The obtained deviation bounds are similar to the case of a Gaussian random vector. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-08 Vladimir Spokoiny

Testing the equality of the covariance matrices of two high-dimensional samples is a fundamental inference problem in statistics. Several tests have been proposed but they are either too liberal or too conservative when the required…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jin-Ting Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Tianming Zhu

A continuous-time random walk in the quarter plane with homogeneous transition rates is considered. Given a non-negative reward function on the state space, we are interested in the expected stationary performance. Since a direct derivation…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-31 Xinwei Bai , Jasper Goseling

The "typical" asymptotic behavior of the weighted sums of independent, identically distibuted random vectors in k-dimensional space is considered. It is shown that under finitnes of fifth absolute moment of an individual term the rate of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Sagak Ayvazyan

In this article, we consider the complete independence test of high-dimensional data. Based on Chatterjee coefficient, we pioneer the development of quadratic test and extreme value test which possess good testing performance for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Liqi Xia , Ruiyuan Cao , Jiang Du , Jun Dai

We examine an analytic variational inference scheme for the Gaussian Process State Space Model (GPSSM) - a probabilistic model for system identification and time-series modelling. Our approach performs variational inference over both the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-11 Alessandro Davide Ialongo , Mark van der Wilk , Carl Edward Rasmussen

This paper develops a set of test statistics based on bilinear forms in the context of the extremum estimation framework with particular interest in nonlinear hypothesis. We show that the proposed statistic converges to a conventional…

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