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For Poisson-Delaunay triangulations in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, a structured and computationally efficient form of the probability density function (PDF) of the volume of a typical cell is analytically derived in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Minghua Xia , Sonia Aïssa

We present a non-perturbative calculation of the 1-point probability distribution function (PDF) for the spherically-averaged matter density field. The PDF is represented as a path integral and is evaluated using the saddle-point method. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Alexander A. Kaurov , Sergey Sibiryakov

The formula for probability density functions (PDFs) has been extended to include PDF for energy dissipation rates in addition to other PDFs such as for velocity fluctuations, velocity derivatives, fluid particle accelerations, energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Arimitsu , N. Arimitsu

We introduce the position-dependent probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed matter field as a cosmological observable. In comparison to the PDF itself, the spatial variation of the position-dependent PDF is simpler to model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

We discuss the generation and statistics of the density fluctuations in highly compressible polytropic turbulence, based on a simple model and one-dimensional numerical simulations. Observing that density structures tend to form in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thierry Passot , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

The probability density function (PDF) of some global average quantity plays a fundamental role in critical and highly correlated systems. We explicitly compute this quantity as a function of the magnetization for the two dimensional XY…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-12-03 G. Palma , D. Zambrano

We discuss the recent progress in extracting partonic functions from the quasi-distribution approach, using twisted mass fermions. This concerns, among others, the investigation of several sources of systematic effects. Their careful…

Conditional density estimation (CDE) is a fundamental task in machine learning that aims to model the full conditional law $\mathbb{P}(\mathbf{y} \mid \mathbf{x})$, beyond mere point prediction (e.g., mean, mode). A core challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chenglong Song , Mazharul Islam , Lin Wang , Bing Chen , Bo Yang

Finding a good way to model probability densities is key to probabilistic inference. An ideal model should be able to concisely approximate any probability while being also compatible with two main operations: multiplications of two models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Alessandro Rudi , Carlo Ciliberto

We study the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for matter density averaged over spherical cells. The leading part to the PDF is defined by spherical collapse dynamics, whereas the next-to-leading part comes from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

Probabilistic finite mixture models are widely used for unsupervised clustering. These models can often be improved by adapting them to the topology of the data. For instance, in order to classify spatially adjacent data points similarly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jonathan Vacher , Claire Launay , Ruben Coen-Cagli

A parametric method similar to autoregressive spectral estimators is proposed to determine the probability density function (pdf) of a random set. The method proceeds by maximizing the likelihood of the pdf, yielding estimates that perform…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Dudok de Wit , E. Floriani

Flamelet Progress Variable (FPV) combustion models allow the evaluation of all thermo chemical quantities in a reacting flow by computing only the mixture fraction Z and a progress variable C. When using such a method to predict a turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-22 Alessandro Coclite , Giuseppe Pascazio , Pietro De Palma , Luigi Cutrone

We study the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass density in simulations of supersonic turbulence with properties appropriate for molecular clouds. For this study we use Athena, a new higher-order Godunov code. We find there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone

For a variant of the algorithm in [Pit19] (arXiv:1903.10816) to compute the approximate density or distribution function of a linear mixture of independent random variables known by a finite sample, it is presented a proof of the functional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Thomas Pitschel

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

In this work, we study non-parametric estimation of joint probabilities of a given set of discrete and continuous random variables from their (empirically estimated) 2D marginals, under the assumption that the joint probability could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shaan ul Haque , Ajit Rajwade , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy

Probability theory has become the predominant framework for quantifying uncertainty across scientific and engineering disciplines, with a particular focus on measurement and control systems. However, the widespread reliance on simple…

In this paper, the classical problem of the probabilistic characterization of a random variable is re-examined. A random variable is usually described by the probability density function (PDF) or by its Fourier transform, namely the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 Giulio Cottone , Mario Di Paola

This paper proposes a comprehensive and unprecedented framework that streamlines the derivation of exact, compact -- yet tractable -- solutions for the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Fernando Darío Almeida García , Michel Daoud Yacoub , José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho