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We introduce a novel approach to inference on parameters that take values in a Riemannian manifold embedded in a Euclidean space. Parameter spaces of this form are ubiquitous across many fields, including chemistry, physics, computer…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-12 Alexander C Murph , Jan Hannig , Jonathan P Williams

The class of $\alpha$-stable distributions received much interest for modelling impulsive phenomena occur in engineering, economics, insurance, and physics. The lack of non-analytical form for probability density function is considered as…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-18 Mahdi Teimouri

An important problem in statistics is the construction of confidence regions for unknown parameters. In most cases, asymptotic distribution theory is used to construct confidence regions, so any coverage probability claims only hold…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Ryan Martin

An integral over the interval $(0,\pi)$ is given for the cumulative distribution function of a sum of independent gamma random variables with different scale and shape parameters. The cumulative distribution function of a positive definite…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Thomas Royen

We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Samuil D. Eidelman , Anatoly N. Kochubei

Based on a progressively type-II censored sample from the exponential distribution with unknown location and scale parameter, confidence bands are proposed for the underlying distribution function by using confidence regions for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Stefan Bedbur , Fabian Mies

Some quasi-arithmetic means of random variables easily give unbiased strongly consistent closed-form estimators of the joint of the location and scale parameters of the Cauchy distribution. The one-step estimators of those quasi-arithmetic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Yuichi Akaoka , Kazuki Okamura , Yoshiki Otobe

Stable distributions are an important class of infinitely-divisible probability distributions, of which two special cases are the Cauchy distribution and the normal distribution. Aside from a few special cases, the density function for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Sebastian Ament , Michael O'Neil

For a system consisting of several Dirac fields and a particle, we study the Cauchy problem with random initial data. We assume that the initial measure has zero mean value, a finite mean charge density, a translation-invariant covariance…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 T. V. Dudnikova

Assume that $X$ and $Y$ are independent random variables, each having a Cauchy distribution with a known median. Taking a random independent sample of size $n$ of each $X$ and $Y$, one can then compute their centralized empirical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Veson Lee , Jan Vrbik

We consider a random variable expressed as the Euclidean distance between an arbitrary point and a random variable uniformly distributed in a closed and bounded set of a three-dimensional Euclidean space. Four cases are considered for this…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Vincent Guigues

This paper studies and critically discusses the construction of nonparametric confidence regions for density level sets. Methodologies based on both vertical variation and horizontal variation are considered. The investigations provide…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Wanli Qiao , Wolfgang Polonik

We propose a new inferential framework for constructing confidence regions and testing hypotheses in statistical models specified by a system of high dimensional estimating equations. We construct an influence function by projecting the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Matey Neykov , Yang Ning , Jun S. Liu , Han Liu

Image analysis frequently deals with shape estimation and image reconstruction. The ob jects of interest in these problems may be thought of as random sets, and one is interested in finding a representative, or expected, set. We consider a…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-09 Hanna K. Jankowski , Larissa I. Stanberry

The Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) divergence was developed by Pr\'{i}ncipe et al. in 2000. In this paper, we extend the classic CS divergence to quantify the closeness between two conditional distributions and show that the developed conditional CS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shujian Yu , Hongming Li , Sigurd Løkse , Robert Jenssen , José C. Príncipe

This paper considers the distributed computation of confidence regions tethered to multidimensional parameter estimation under linear measurement models. In particular, the considered confidence regions are non-asymptotic, this meaning that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Vincenzo Zambianchi , Michel Kieffer , Gianni Pasolini , Francesca Bassi , Davide Dardari

Given N data points drawn from a chi-square distribution, we use Bayesian inference to determine most likely values and N-dependent confidence intervals for the width sigma and the number k of degrees of freedom of that distribution. Using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-14 H. -L. Harney , H. A. Weidenmüller

For $\alpha>0$ and $\sigma > 0$, we consider the following probability distribution on $\alpha\mathbb N_0$: $\pi_{\alpha,\sigma} = \exp \big(- \frac{\sigma}{{\alpha}^2}\big) \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n!}…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Chadaphorn Kodsueb , Eugene Lytvynov

We consider the problem of estimating the mean of a distribution supported by the $k$-dimensional probability simplex in the setting where an $\varepsilon$ fraction of observations are subject to adversarial corruption. A simple particular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Amir-Hossein Bateni , Arnak S. Dalalyan

We propose confidence regions for the parameters of incomplete models with exact coverage of the true parameter in finite samples. Our confidence region inverts a test, which generalizes Monte Carlo tests to incomplete models. The test…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-10-07 Lixiong Li , Marc Henry