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Estimates of finite population cumulativedistribution functions (CDFs) and quantiles are critical forpolicy-making, resource allocation, and public health planning. For instance, federal finance agencies may require accurate estimates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Jeremy Flood , Sayed Mostafa

Application of the exact statistical inference frequently leads to a non-standard probability distributions of the considered estimators or test statistics. The exact distributions of many estimators and test statistics can be specified by…

Computation · Statistics 2018-01-09 Viktor Witkovský

There is given a method for estimation of a probability distribution tail in terms of characteristic function. Key words: characteristic function; tail of a distribution.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Lev B. Klebanov , Andrea Karlova

The Euclidean algorithm makes possible a simple but powerful generalization of Taylor's theorem. Instead of expanding a function in a series around a single point, one spreads out the spectrum to include any number of points with given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Garret Sobczyk

Functional data analysis has gained significant attention due to its wide applicability. This research explores the extension of statistical analysis methods for functional data, with a primary focus on supervised classification techniques.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-25 Catalina Lesmes , Francisco Zuluaga , Henry Laniado , Andres Gomez , Andrea Carvajal

In many areas of science one aims to estimate latent sub-population mean curves based only on observations of aggregated population curves. By aggregated curves we mean linear combination of functional data that cannot be observed…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-15 Ronaldo Dias , Nancy L. Garcia , Alexandra M. Schmidt

A connection between fractional calculus and statistical distribution theory has been established by the authors recently. Some extensions of the results to matrix-variate functions were also considered. In the present article, more results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-01 A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

This paper introduces the Trimmed Functional Empirical Process (TFEP) as a robust framework for statistical inference when dealing with heavy-tailed or skewed distributions, where classical moments such as the mean or variance may be…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-09 Abdoulaye Camara , Saliou Diouf , Moumouni Diallo , Gane Samb Lo

A sharp, distribution free, non-asymptotic result is proved for the concentration of a random function around the mean function, when the randomization is generated by a finite sequence of independent data and the random functions satisfy…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Thomas Anton , Sutanuka Roy , Rabee Tourky

In distributional or average-case analysis, the goal is to design an algorithm with good-on-average performance with respect to a specific probability distribution. Distributional analysis can be useful for the study of general-purpose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Tim Roughgarden

Data cohesion, a recently introduced measure inspired by social interactions, uses distance comparisons to assess relative proximity. In this work, we provide a collection of results which can guide the development of cohesion-based methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Katherine E. Moore

We study optimization problems in which a linear functional is maximized over probability measures that are dominated by a given measure according to an integral stochastic order in an arbitrary dimension. We show that the following four…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-13 Frank Yang , Kai Hao Yang

In this note we analyze the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension function using tools from the theory of stochastic analysis applied to Dirichlet problems. We use a stochastic approach to give the explicit formulation of the kernel associated to…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Michelangelo Cavina

Discrete point cloud objects lack sufficient shape descriptors of 3D geometries. In this paper, we present a novel method for aggregating hypothetical curves in point clouds. Sequences of connected points (curves) are initially grouped by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai

We achieve the multifractal analysis of a class of complex valued statistically self-similar continuous functions. For we use multifractal formalisms associated with pointwise oscillation exponents of all orders. Our study exhibits new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Julien Barral , Xiong Jin

We propose an alternative to $k$-nearest neighbors for functional data whereby the approximating neighboring curves are piecewise functions built from a functional sample. Using a locally defined distance function that satisfies…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-02 Antonio Elías , Raúl Jiménez , Joe Yukich

In multi-center clinical trials, due to various reasons, the individual-level data are strictly restricted to be assessed publicly. Instead, the summarized information is widely available from published results. With the advance of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-05 Jing Qin , Yukun Liu , Pengfei Li

Empirical copula functions can be used to model the dependence structure of multivariate data. The Greenwald and Khanna algorithm is adapted in order to provide a space-memory efficient approximation to the empirical copula function of a…

Computation · Statistics 2019-01-23 Alastair Gregory

We provide a new method to approximate a (possibly discontinuous) function using Christoffel-Darboux kernels. Our knowledge about the unknown multivariate function is in terms of finitely many moments of the Young measure supported on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Swann Marx , Edouard Pauwels , Tillmann Weisser , Didier Henrion , Jean Lasserre

Estimating the empirical distribution of a scalar-valued data set is a basic and fundamental task. In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating an empirical distribution in a setting with two challenging features. First, the algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Princewill Okoroafor , Vaishnavi Gupta , Robert Kleinberg , Eleanor Goh