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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…

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The article is devoted to the estimation of the rate of convergence of integral functionals of a Markov process. Under the assumption that the given Markov process admits a transition probability density which is differentiable in $t$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-03 I. Ganychenko , V. Knopova , A. Kulik

This paper studies the numerical methods to approximate the solutions for a sort of McKean-Vlasov neutral stochastic differential delay equations (MV-NSDDEs) that the growth of the drift coefficients is super-linear. First, We obtain that…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Yuanping Cui , Xiaoyue Li , Yi Liu , Chenggui Yuan

The goal of the paper is development of an optimization method with the superlinear convergence rate for a nonsmooth convex function. For optimization an approximation is used that is similar to the Steklov integral averaging. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-03 I. M. Prudnikov

We consider drift parameter estimation in a model driven by the sum of two independent fractional Brownian motions with different Hurst indices. Although the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for this model is known theoretically, its…

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We find limiting distributions of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of a log-concave density, that is, a density of the form $f_0=\exp\varphi_0$ where $\varphi_0$ is a concave function on $\mathbb{R}$. The pointwise…

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The distributional transform (DT) is amongst the computational methods used for estimation of high-dimensional multivariate normal copula models with discrete responses. Its advantage is that the likelihood can be derived conveniently under…

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We present an improved Minimal Variance (MV) method for using a radial peculiar velocity sample to estimate the average of the three-dimensional velocity field over a spherical volume, which leads to an easily interpretable bulk flow…

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We introduce the Multilevel Euler-Maruyama (ML-EM) method compute solutions of SDEs and ODEs using a range of approximators $f^1,\dots,f^k$ to the drift $f$ with increasing accuracy and computational cost, only requiring a few evaluations…

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This paper studies a method, which has been proposed in the Physics literature by [8, 7, 10], for estimating the quasi-stationary distribution. In contrast to existing methods in eigenvector estimation, the method eliminates the need for…

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We consider the numerical solution of scalar, nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion problems with random diffusion coefficient and with random flux functions. Building on recent results on the existence, uniqueness and continuous…

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We study the peculiar velocity field inferred from the Mark III spirals using a new method of analysis. We estimate optimal values of Tully-Fisher scatter and zero-point offset, and we derive the 3-dimensional rms peculiar velocity…

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We consider a multiplicative deconvolution problem, in which the density $f$ or the survival function $S^X$ of a strictly positive random variable $X$ is estimated nonparametrically based on an i.i.d. sample from a noisy observation $Y =…

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Given the dimensions (including thickness) and rotation speeds for an axisymmetric galaxy, a closed-loop iterative method is designed to find the total mass, density, and surface-mass density (SMD)distributions. There is no need for…

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This paper proposes an efficient numerical integration formula to compute the normalizing constant of Fisher--Bingham distributions. This formula uses a numerical integration formula with the continuous Euler transform to a Fourier-type…

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In this paper we propose a new deterministic approximation method, called discretization approximation, for Bayesian computation. Discretization approximation is very simple to understand and to implement, It only requires calculating…

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