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We propose a semiparametric family of copulas based on a set of orthonormal functions and a matrix. This new copula permits to reach values of Spearman's Rho arbitrarily close to one without introducing a singular component. Moreover, it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Cécile Amblard , Stephane Girard , Ludovic Menneteau

Modeling distributions on Riemannian manifolds is a crucial component in understanding non-Euclidean data that arises, e.g., in physics and geology. The budding approaches in this space are limited by representational and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Samuel Cohen , Brandon Amos , Yaron Lipman

The Copula is widely used to describe the relationship between the marginal distribution and joint distribution of random variables. The estimation of high-dimensional Copula is difficult, and most existing solutions rely either on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Zhi Zeng , Ting Wang

Differential calculus on discrete sets is developed in the spirit of noncommutative geometry. Any differential algebra on a discrete set can be regarded as a `reduction' of the `universal differential algebra' and this allows a systematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Dimakis , F. Müller-Hoissen

This paper addresses the issue of structure-preserving discretization of open distributed-parameter systems with Hamiltonian dynamics. Employing the formalism of discrete exterior calculus, we introduce a simplicial Dirac structure as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Marko Seslija , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

Discrete conjugate systems are quadrilateral nets with all planar faces. Discrete orthogonal systems are defined by the additional property of all faces being concircular. Their geometric properties allow one to consider them as proper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 A. I. Bobenko , D. Matthes , Yu. B. Suris

Considering discrete models, the univariate framework has been studied in depth compared to the multivariate one. This paper first proposes two criteria to define a sensu stricto multivariate discrete distribution. It then introduces the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Pierre Fernique , Jean Peyhardi , Jean-Baptiste Durand

This paper develops a general inferential framework for discrete copulas on finite supports in any dimension. The copula of a multivariate discrete distribution is defined as Csiszar's I-projection (i.e., the minimum-Kullback-Leibler…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Gery Geenens , Ivan Kojadinovic , Tommaso Martini

We consider polyhedral approximations of strictly convex compacta in finite dimensional Euclidean spaces (such compacta are also uniformly convex). We obtain the best possible estimates for errors of considered approximations in the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Maxim V. Balashov , Dušan Repovš

In the last years it has been shown that Lotka-Volterra mappings constitute a valuable tool from both the theoretical and the applied points of view, with developments in very diverse fields such as Physics, Population Dynamics, Chemistry…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Benito Hernández-Bermejo , Léon Brenig

We analyze a variational time discretization of geodesic calculus on finite- and certain classes of infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. We investigate the fundamental properties of discrete geodesics, the associated discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

The continuous extension of a discrete random variable is amongst the computational methods used for estimation of multivariate normal copula-based models with discrete margins. Its advantage is that the likelihood can be derived…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-10 Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos

In this paper, we investigate several subsets of $n$-copulas and $n$-quasi-copulas from the perspective of convex-lineability and the recently introduced concept of convex-spaceability. Our purpose is to determine when such families contain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Enrique de Amo , Juan Fernández-Sánchez , David García-Fernández , Manuel Úbeda-Flores

Polytopes from subgraph statistics are important in applications and conjectures and theorems in extremal graph theory can be stated as properties of them. We have studied them with a view towards applications by inscribing large explicit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-22 Alexander Engström , Patrik Norén

In this paper we introduce a new class of multivariate unimodal distributions, motivated by Khintchine's representation. We start by proposing a univariate model, whose support covers all the unimodal distributions on the real line. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-25 Marina S. Paez , Stephen G. Walker

We present a discrete theory for modeling developable surfaces as quadrilateral meshes satisfying simple angle constraints. The basis of our model is a lesser known characterization of developable surfaces as manifolds that can be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Michael Rabinovich , Tim Hoffmann , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Geometric data analysis and learning has emerged as a distinct and rapidly developing research area, increasingly recognized for its effectiveness across diverse applications. At the heart of this field lies curvature, a powerful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasharth Yadav , Kelin Xia

The region of entropic vectors is a convex cone that has been shown to be at the core of many fundamental limits for problems in multiterminal data compression, network coding, and multimedia transmission. This cone has been shown to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Yunshu Liu , John MacLaren Walsh

Upon a consistent topological statistical theory the application of structural statistics requires a quantification of the proximity structure of model spaces. An important tool to study these structures are Pseudo-Riemannian metrices,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Patrick Michl

A biconvex polytope is a classical and tropical convex hull of finitely many points. Given a biconvex polytope, for each vertex of it we construct a directed bigraph and a gammoid so that the collection of base polytopes of those gammoids…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Jaeho Shin