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In this paper, we propose a distributed multi-object tracking algorithm through the use of multi-Bernoulli (MB) filter based on generalized Covariance Intersection (G-CI). Our analyses show that the G-CI fusion with two MB posterior…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Bailu Wang , Wei Yi , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Suqi Li , Lingjiang Kong , Xiaobo Yang

In this article, we introduce mixture representations for likelihood ratio ordered distributions. Essentially, the ratio of two probability densities, or mass functions, is monotone if and only if one can be expressed as a mixture of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-30 Michael Jauch , Andrés F. Barrientos , Víctor Peña , David S. Matteson

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for solving inverse problems, yet prior work has primarily focused on observations with Gaussian measurement noise, restricting their use in real-world scenarios. This limitation persists due…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Alessandro Micheli , Mélodie Monod , Samir Bhatt

The binomial, the negative binomial, the Poisson, the compound Poisson and the Erlang distribution do all admit integral representations with respect to its (continuous) parameter. We use the Margulis-Russo type formulas for Bernoulli and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Guenter Last , Sergei Zuyev

A Bayesian nonparametric method for unimodal densities on the real line is provided by considering a class of species sampling mixture models containing random densities that are unimodal and not necessarily symmetric. This class of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Man-Wai Ho

Gibbs type priors have been shown to be natural generalizations of Dirichlet process (DP) priors used for intricate applications of Bayesian nonparametric methods. This includes applications to mixture models and to species sampling models…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Lancelot F. James

Grouped data are commonly encountered in applications. The Bernstein polynomial model is proposed as an approximate model in this paper for estimating a univariate density function based on grouped data. The coefficients of the Bernstein…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-21 Zhong Guan

We exploit a suitable moment-based characterization of the mixture of Poisson distribution for developing Bayesian inference for the unknown size of a finite population whose units are subject to multiple occurrences during an enumeration…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-19 Danilo Alunni Fegatelli , Luca Tardella

Gibbs sampling is a Markov chain Monte Carlo technique commonly used for estimating marginal distributions. To speed up Gibbs sampling, there has recently been interest in parallelizing it by executing asynchronously. While empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Christopher De Sa , Kunle Olukotun , Christopher Ré

In object tracking and state estimation problems, ambiguous evidence such as imprecise measurements and the absence of detections can contain valuable information and thus be leveraged to further refine the probabilistic belief state. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Keith A. LeGrand , Silvia Ferrari

The Yule--Simon distribution has been out of the radar of the Bayesian community, so far. In this note, we propose an explicit Gibbs sampling scheme when a Gamma prior is chosen for the shape parameter. The performance of the algorithm is…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-04 Fabrizio Leisen , Luca Rossini , Cristiano Villa

In this paper we derive a multi-sensor multi-Bernoulli (MS-MeMBer) filter for multi-target tracking. Measurements from multiple sensors are employed by the proposed filter to update a set of tracks modeled as a multi-Bernoulli random finite…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-11 Augustin-Alexandru Saucan , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

In a modern observational study based on healthcare databases, the number of observations and of predictors typically range in the order of $10^5$ ~ $10^6$ and of $10^4$ ~ $10^5$. Despite the large sample size, data rarely provide…

Computation · Statistics 2022-03-30 Akihiko Nishimura , Marc A. Suchard

We propose an efficient random finite set (RFS) based algorithm for multiobject tracking in which the object states are modeled by a combination of a labeled multi-Bernoulli (LMB) RFS and a Poisson RFS. The less computationally demanding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Thomas Kropfreiter , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch

We present a novel model for text complexity analysis which can be fitted to ordered categorical data measured on multiple scales, e.g. a corpus with binary responses mixed with a corpus with more than two ordered outcomes. The multiple…

Applications · Statistics 2018-11-13 Johan Falkenjack , Mattias Villani , Arne Jönsson

A beta-negative binomial (BNB) process is proposed, leading to a beta-gamma-Poisson process, which may be viewed as a "multi-scoop" generalization of the beta-Bernoulli process. The BNB process is augmented into a beta-gamma-gamma-Poisson…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-07 Mingyuan Zhou , Lauren Hannah , David Dunson , Lawrence Carin

In this paper, a new mixed Poisson distribution is introduced. This new distribution is obtained by utilizing mixing process, with Poisson distribution as mixed distribution and Transmuted Exponential distribution as mixing distribution.…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-05 Deepesh Bhati , Pooja Kumawat , E. Gómez Déniz

Non-Gaussian mixture models are gaining increasing attention for mixture model-based clustering particularly when dealing with data that exhibit features such as skewness and heavy tails. Here, such a mixture distribution is presented,…

Computation · Statistics 2020-05-07 Yuan Fang , Dimitris Karlis , Sanjeena Subedi

We introduce a density basis of the trigonometric polynomials that is suitable to mixture modelling. Statistical and geometric properties are derived, suggesting it as a circular analogue to the Bernstein polynomial densities. Nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-26 Olivier Binette , Simon Guillotte

Even in low dimensions, sampling from multi-modal distributions is challenging. We provide the first sampling algorithm for a broad class of distributions -- including all Gaussian mixtures -- with a query complexity that is polynomial in…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-24 Adrien Vacher , Omar Chehab , Anna Korba