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We introduce the Hessian reweighting of parton distribution functions (PDFs). Similarly to the better-known Bayesian methods, its purpose is to address the compatibility of new data and the quantitative modifications they induce within an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Hannu Paukkunen , Pia Zurita

The distribution of the sum of independent identically distributed uniform random variables is well-known. However, it is sometimes necessary to analyze data which have been drawn from different uniform distributions. By inverting the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-25 David M. Bradley , Ramesh C. Gupta

We apply the Law of Total Probability to the construction of scale-invariant probability distribution functions (pdfs), and require that probability measures be dimensionless and unitless under a continuous change of scales. If the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-04-27 J. L. Friar , T. Goldman , J. Perez-Mercader

A probability density function (PDF) of a spatially dependent field provides a means of calculating moments of the field or, equivalently, the proportion of a spatial domain that is mapped to a given set of values. This paper describes a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-10 Paul M. Mannix , David A. Ham , John Craske

Distribution learning finds probability density functions from a set of data samples, whereas clustering aims to group similar data points to form clusters. Although there are deep clustering methods that employ distribution learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guanfang Dong , Zijie Tan , Chenqiu Zhao , Anup Basu

We propose a new generator for the generalized inverse Gaussian (GIG) distribution by decomposing the density of GIG into two components. The first component is a truncated inverse Gamma density, in order to sample from which we improve the…

Computation · Statistics 2022-11-24 Xiaozhu Zhang , Jerome P. Reiter

The modality is important topic for modelling. Using parametric models is an efficient way when real data set shows trimodality. In this paper we propose a new class of trimodal probability distributions, that is, probability distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-08 Roberto Vila , Victor Serra , Mehmet N. Çankaya , Felipe Quintino

One of the fundamental problems in machine learning is the estimation of a probability distribution from data. Many techniques have been proposed to study the structure of data, most often building around the assumption that observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-22 Oren Rippel , Ryan Prescott Adams

A probability density function (pdf) encodes the entire stochastic knowledge about data distribution, where data may represent stochastic observations in robotics, transition state pairs in reinforcement learning or any other empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Dmitry Kopitkov , Vadim Indelman

Denoising diffusion models have become ubiquitous for generative modeling. The core idea is to transport the data distribution to a Gaussian by using a diffusion. Approximate samples from the data distribution are then obtained by…

Prior work in document summarization has mainly focused on generating short summaries of a document. While this type of summary helps get a high-level view of a given document, it is desirable in some cases to know more detailed information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sajad Sotudeh , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

The probability density function (PDF) associated with a given set of samples is approximated by a piecewise-linear polynomial constructed with respect to a binning of the sample space. The kernel functions are a compactly supported basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Giacomo Capodaglio , Max Gunzburger

A new method based on the maximum entropy principle for reconstructing the parton distribution function (PDF) from moments is proposed. Unlike traditional methods, the new method no longer needs to introduce any artificial assumptions. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Sihan Zhang , Xiaobin Wang , Tao Lin , Lei Chang

In this paper we combine the Alias method with the concept of systematic sampling, a method commonly used in particle filters for efficient low-variance resampling. The proposed method allows very fast sampling from a discrete distribution:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ilari Vallivaara , Katja Poikselkä , Pauli Rikula , Juha Röning

We consider the estimation of Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (DPMMs) in distributed environments, where data are distributed across multiple computing nodes. A key advantage of Bayesian nonparametric models such as DPMMs is that they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-20 Ruohui Wang , Dahua Lin

This paper offers a mathematical invention that shows how to convert integrated quantiles, which often appear in risk measures, into integrated cumulative distribution functions, which are technically more tractable from various…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-26 Yunran Wei , Ricardas Zitikis

Modeling large dependent datasets in modern time series analysis is a crucial research area. One effective approach to handle such datasets is to transform the observations into density functions and apply statistical methods for further…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-23 Yinzhi Wang , Yingqiu Zhu , Ben-Chang Shia , Lei Qin

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

The distribution of the sum of dependent risks is a crucial aspect in actuarial sciences, risk management and in many branches of applied probability. In this paper, we obtain analytic expressions for the probability density function (pdf)…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-02 José María Sarabia , Emilio Gómez-Déniz , Faustino Prieto , Vanesa Jordá

A composite likelihood is a non-genuine likelihood function that allows to make inference on limited aspects of a model, such as marginal or conditional distributions. Composite likelihoods are not proper likelihoods and need therefore…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-06 Michele Lambardi di San Miniato , Nicola Sartori