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Analysis of geostatistical data is often based on the assumption that the spatial random field is isotropic. This assumption, if erroneous, can adversely affect model predictions and statistical inference. Nowadays many applications…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-30 Indranil Sahoo , Joseph Guinness , Brian J. Reich

Following the seminal result of An & Evans, known as the central density slope-anisotropy theorem, successive investigations unexpectedly revealed that the density slope-anisotropy inequality holds not only at the center, but at all radii…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Luca Ciotti , Lucia Morganti

The thin plate spline smoother is a classical model for fnding a smooth function from the knowledge of its observation at scattered locations which may have random noises. We consider a nonconforming Morley finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang

We present a new unified theory of critical finite-size scaling for lattice statistical mechanical models with periodic boundary conditions above the upper critical dimension. Our theory is based on recent mathematically rigorous results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Yucheng Liu , Jiwoon Park , Gordon Slade

A hemispherical multilayer wide-band (7-13 GHz) band-pass frequency selective surface (FSS) is reported. A new design technique based on a Goldberg discretization and unit cell scaling technique is introduced to accommodate the curved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Ali Tehranian , Jordan Budhu , Casey Perkowski , Lance Sookdeo , Kenneth H. Church , Garrett Harris , Carl Pfeiffer

In this paper, we analyze the finite sample complexity of stochastic system identification using modern tools from machine learning and statistics. An unknown discrete-time linear system evolves over time under Gaussian noise without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Anastasios Tsiamis , George J. Pappas

Stochastic processes wherein the size of the state space is changing as a function of time offer models for the emergence of scale-invariant features observed in complex systems. I consider such a sample-space reducing (SSR) stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Avinash Chand Yadav

Schr\"{o}dinger-F\"{o}llmer sampler (SFS) is a novel and efficient approach for sampling from possibly unnormalized distributions without ergodicity. SFS is based on the Euler-Maruyama discretization of Schr\"{o}dinger-F\"{o}llmer diffusion…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-13 Yuling Jiao , Lican Kang , Yanyan Liu , Youzhou Zhou

We demonstrate that a prior influence on the posterior distribution of covariance matrix vanishes as sample size grows. The assumptions on a prior are explicit and mild. The results are valid for a finite sample and admit the dimension $p$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Igor Silin

Cosmological analyses of second-order weak lensing statistics require precise and accurate covariance estimates. These covariances are impacted by two sometimes neglected terms: A negative contribution to the Gaussian covariance due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Laila Linke , Pierre A. Burger , Sven Heydenreich , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider

This survey addresses sampling discretization and its connections with other areas of mathematics. The survey concentrates on sampling discretization of norms of elements of finite-dimensional subspaces. We present here known results on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-11 B. Kashin , E. Kosov , I. Limonova , V. Temlyakov

According to the concept of typicality, an ensemble average can be accurately approximated by an expectation value with respect to a single pure state drawn at random from a high-dimensional Hilbert space. This random-vector approximation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-22 J. Schnack , J. Richter , T. Heitmann , J. Richter , R. Steinigeweg

Testing for normality is a widely used procedure in statistics and data analysis, often applied prior to employing methods that rely on the assumption of normally distributed data. While several existing tests target distributional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Akin Anarat , Holger Schwender

Linear Least Squares is a very well known technique for parameter estimation, which is used even when sub-optimal, because of its very low computational requirements and the fact that exact knowledge of the noise statistics is not required.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Michael Krikheli , Amir Leshem

The spherical cap discrepancy is a prominent measure of uniformity for sets on the d-dimensional sphere. It is particularly important for estimating the integration error for certain classes of functions on the sphere. Building on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Holger Heitsch , René Henrion

We propose a sampling scheme that can perfectly reconstruct a collection of spikes on the sphere from samples of their lowpass-filtered observations. Central to our algorithm is a generalization of the annihilating filter method, a tool…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Ivan Dokmanic , Yue M. Lu

We introduce a sharpness functional for probabilistic models that quantifies sharpness as an intrinsic property of the probability distribution. The measure is derived based on a rank-based concentration principle that tracks upward…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Pekka Syrjänen

We analyze the large scale structure and fluctuations of jammed packings of size disperse spheres, produced in a granular experiment as well as numerically. While the structure factor of the packings reveals no unusual behavior for small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-01 Ludovic Berthier , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Corentin Coulais , Olivier Dauchot , Peter Sollich

We introduce probabilistic frames to study finite frames whose elements are chosen at random. While finite tight frames generalize orthonormal bases by allowing redundancy, independent, uniformly distributed points on the sphere…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-11 Martin Ehler

A close packed organization with circular symmetry of a large number of small discs on a plane is obtained when the centres of the discs are distributed according to the algorithm of phyllotaxis. We study here the distributions obtained on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jean-François Sadoc , Jean Charvolin , Nicolas Rivier