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High angular resolution diffusion imaging data is the observed characteristic function for the local diffusion of water molecules in tissue. This data is used to infer structural information in brain imaging. Nonparametric scalar measures…

Applications · Statistics 2011-08-17 Sofia C. Olhede , Brandon Whitcher

We study the cross section \sigma and Forward-Backward asymmetry A_{FB} in the process pp \to \gamma^*,Z \to \ell^+\ell^- (with \ell=e,\mu) for determinations of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton. We show that, once mapped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-19 E. Accomando , J. Fiaschi , F. Hautmann , S. Moretti

The Fisher-Bingham distribution ($\mathrm{FB}_8$) is an eight-parameter family of probability density functions (PDF) on $S^2$ that, under certain conditions, reduce to spherical analogues of bivariate normal PDFs. Due to difficulties in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-04-06 Tianlu Yuan

Calculations of the parton distribution function (PDF) and distribution amplitude (DA) are highly relevant to core experimental programs as they provide non-perturbative inputs to inclusive and exclusive processes, respectively. Direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Zhong-Bo Kang , Noah Moran , Peter Nguyen , Wenyang Qian

Bayesian estimation strategies represent the most fundamental formulation of the state estimation problem available, and apply readily to nonlinear systems with non-Gaussian uncertainties. The present paper introduces a novel method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-22 T R Bewley , A S Sharma

Weak gravitational lensing surveys are rapidly becoming important tools to probe directly the mass density fluctuations in the universe and its background dynamics. Earlier studies have shown that it is possible to model the statistics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Valageas , Andrew J. Barber , Dipak Munshi

We study the non-Gaussian tail of the probability distribution function of density in cosmological N-Body simulations for a variety of initial conditions. We compare the behaviour of the non-Gaussian tail in the real space with that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla , Suryadeep Ray

We present NNPDFpol2.0, a new set of collinear helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton based on legacy measurements of structure functions in inclusive neutral-current longitudinally polarised deep-inelastic scattering…

We have set ourselves the task of obtaining the probability distribution function of the mass density of a self-gravitating isothermal compressible turbulent fluid from its physics. We have done this in the context of a new notion: the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Sava Donkov , Ivan Stefanov

We introduce new efficient integral representations and methods for evaluation of pdfs, cpds and quantiles of stable distributions. For wide regions in the parameter space, absolute errors of order $10^{-15}$ can be achieved in 0.005-0.1…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Svetlana Boyarchenko , Sergei Levendorskiĭ

In non-linear scales, the matter density distribution is not Gaussian. Consequently, the widely used two-point correlation function is not adequate anymore to capture the matter density field's entire behaviour. Among all statistics beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Zahra Baghkhani , Laya Ghodsi , Sina Taamoli , Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram

We consider a nonparametric Bayesian approach to estimate the diffusion coefficient of a stochastic differential equation given discrete time observations over a fixed time interval. As a prior on the diffusion coefficient, we employ a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Shota Gugushvili , Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Peter Spreij

We investigate the behavior of the magnetic pressure, $b^2$, in fully turbulent MHD flows in ``1+2/3'' dimensions by means of its effect on the probability density function (PDF) of the density field. We start by reviewing our previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Thierry Passot

We introduce a method for the estimation of uncertainties in density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations for atomistic systems. The method is based on the construction of an uncertainty-aware functional distribution (UAFD) in a space…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Teitur Hansen , Jens Jørgen Mortensen , Thomas Bligaard , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

This paper introduces a new framework for quantifying predictive uncertainty for both data and models that relies on projecting the data into a Gaussian reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and transforming the data probability density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Rishabh Singh , Jose C. Principe

We obtain an exact result for the midpoint probability distribution function (pdf) of the stationary continuum directed polymer, when averaged over the disorder. It is obtained by relating that pdf to the linear response of the stochastic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-09 Christian Maes , Thimothée Thiery

Motivated by its important role in the collisional growth of dust particles in protoplanetary disks, we investigate the probability distribution function (PDF) of the relative velocity of inertial particles suspended in turbulent flows.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , John Scalo

We consider the statistical properties of the gravitational field F in an infinite one-dimensional homogeneous Poisson distribution of particles, using an exponential cut-off of the pair interaction to control and study the divergences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea Gabrielli , Michael Joyce

We focus on the probability distribution function (pdf) $P(\Delta \gamma; \gamma)$ where $\Delta \gamma$ are the {\em measured} strain intervals between plastic events in an athermal strained amorphous solids, and $\gamma$ measures the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 H. G. E. Hentschel , Prabhat K. Jaiswal , Itamar Procaccia , Srikanth Sastry