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The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is a highly non-linear field with a lot of information available in the data beyond the power spectrum. The flux probability distribution function (PDF) has been used as a successful probe of small-scale physics.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Anže Slosar

Container ships encounter large roll angles and high acceleration, and container loss remains a problem. This study proposes a method for calculating the probability density function~(PDF) of roll angular and cargo lateral accelerations.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Yuuki Maruyama , Atsuo Maki , Leo Dostal , Naoya Umeda

Biological entities are inherently dynamic. As such, various ecological disciplines use mathematical models to describe temporal evolution. Typically, growth curves are modelled as sigmoids, with the evolution modelled by ordinary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-12 A. Samoletov , B. Vasiev

We study how environmental stochasticity influences the long-term population size in certain one- and two-species models. The difficulty is that even when one can prove that there is persistence, it is usually impossible to say anything…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-15 Alexandru Hening , Siddharth Sabharwal

A recent study by Wang {\it et al.}(arXiv:2309.01417) proposed a novel connection between the nature of the parton distribution function (PDF) and the characteristics of its moments. In this study, we apply these findings to analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Xiaobin Wang , Zexin Wu , Minghui Ding , Lei Chang

We study the effect of noise on the evolution of the growth factor of density perturbations in the context of the LCDM model. Stochasticity is introduced as a Wiener process amplified by an intensity parameter alpha. By comparing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 A. L. B. Ribeiro , A. P. A. Andrade , P. S. Letelier

Density estimation plays a crucial role in many data analysis tasks, as it infers a continuous probability density function (PDF) from discrete samples. Thus, it is used in tasks as diverse as analyzing population data, spatial locations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Patrik Puchert , Pedro Hermosilla , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski

We study the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass density in simulations of supersonic turbulence with properties appropriate for molecular clouds. For this study we use Athena, a new higher-order Godunov code. We find there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone

Turbulence is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. There is a need for adequate tools to describe and characterize the properties of turbulent flows. One-point probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen

Given a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables, a novel nonparametric maximum entropy method is presented to estimate the underlying continuous univariate probability density function (pdf). Estimates are found…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Jenny Farmer , Donald J. Jacobs

In a recent letter, Christian Beck described a theoretical link between a family of stochastic differential equations and the probability density functions (PDF) derived from the formalism of nonextensive statistical mechanics. He applied…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Alice M. Crawford , Nicolas Mordant , Andy M. Reynolds , Eberhard Bodenschatz

Context: Statistical properties of the cosmic density fields are to a large extent encoded in the shape of the one-point density probability distribution functions (PDF). In order to successfully exploit such observables, a detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Francis Bernardeau

In this work, we study non-parametric estimation of joint probabilities of a given set of discrete and continuous random variables from their (empirically estimated) 2D marginals, under the assumption that the joint probability could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shaan ul Haque , Ajit Rajwade , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy

The probability density function (PDF) of some global average quantity plays a fundamental role in critical and highly correlated systems. We explicitly compute this quantity as a function of the magnetization for the two dimensional XY…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-12-03 G. Palma , D. Zambrano

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point Probability Distribution Function (PDF) can be estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational Perturbation Theory (PT) with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , E. Elizalde

The diffusion of colloids inside an active system-e.g. within a living cell or the dynamics of active particles itself (e.g. self-propelled particles) can be modeled through overdamped Langevin equation which contains an additional noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Koushik Goswami , K. L. Sebastian

Time series analysis allows for the determination of the Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Probability Density Function (PDF) for astrophysical sources. The former of these illustrates the distribution of power at various timescales,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Paul J. Morris , Nachiketa Chakraborty , Garret Cotter

We consider discrete stochastic processes, modeled by classical master equations, on networks. The temporal growth of the lack of information about the system is captured by its non-equilibrium entropy, defined via the transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Oliver Muelken , Sarah Heinzelmann , Maxim Dolgushev

We are concerned with a nonlinear nonautonomous model represented by an equation describing the dynamics of an age-structured population diffusing in a space habitat $O,$ governed by local Lipschitz vital factors and by a stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Gabriela Marinoschi

A theory of the probability distribution function (PDF) tails of the blob density in plasma edge turbulence is provided. A simplified model of the fast convective radial transport is used. The theoretically predicted PDF tails corroborate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim