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In Bayesian inference, an unknown measurement uncertainty is often quantified in terms of a Gamma distributed precision parameter, which is impractical when prior information on the standard deviation of the measurement uncertainty shall be…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-19 Manuel M. Eichenlaub

Bivariate normal distributions are often used to describe the joint probability density of a pair of random variables. These distributions arise across many domains, from telecommunications, to meteorology, ballistics, and computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-08 Emily A. Cooper , Hany Farid

Approximate Bayesian inference typically revolves around computing the posterior parameter distribution. In practice, however, the main object of interest is often a model's predictions rather than its parameters. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Julian Rodemann , Alexander Marquard , Thomas Augustin , Michele Caprio

In this paper we propose a semi-parametric Bayesian Generalized Least Squares estimator. In a generic setting where each error is a vector, the parametric Generalized Least Square estimator maintains the assumption that each error vector…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-02-01 Ruochen Wu , Melvyn Weeks

This note corrects a technical error in Guardiola (2020, Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications), presents updated derivations, and offers an extended discussion of the properties of the spherical Dirichlet distribution.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Jose H Guardiola

In this paper we propose a new family of distribution considering Generalized Marshal-Olkin distribution as the base line distribution in the Beta-G family of Construction. The new family includes Beta-G (Eugene et al. 2002 and Jones, 2004)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Laba Handique , Subrata Chakraborty

This paper proposes a unified class of generalized location-scale mixture of multivariate elliptical distributions and studies integral stochastic orderings of random vectors following such distributions. Given a random vector…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Tong Pu , Yiying Zhang , Chuancun Yin

We introduce a mixture of generalized hyperbolic distributions as an alternative to the ubiquitous mixture of Gaussian distributions as well as their near relatives of which the mixture of multivariate t and skew-t distributions are…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-09 Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

The four-parameter generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GBII) has been proposed for modelling insurance losses with heavy-tailed features. The aim of this paper is to present a parametric composite GBII regression modelling by…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-29 Zhengxiao Li , Fei Wang , Zhengtang Zhao

We present a computational framework for efficient learning, sampling, and distribution of general Bayesian posterior distributions. The framework leverages a machine learning approach for the construction of normalizing flows for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Yukari Yamauchi , Landon Buskirk , Pablo Giuliani , Kyle Godbey

The main object of this paper is to present a new generalized beta function which defined by three parametres Mittag-Leffler function. We also introduce new generalizations of hypergeometric and confluent hypergeometric functions with the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Muhammed Ay

In two recent articles we have examined a generalization of the binomial distribution associated with a sequence of positive numbers, involving asymmetric expressions of probabilities that break the symmetry {\it win-loss}. We present in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Bergeron , E. M. F. Curado , J. P. Gazeau , Ligia M. C. S. Rodrigues

The generalized gamma distribution shows up in many problems related to engineering, hydrology as well as survival analysis. Earlier work has been done that estimated the deviation of the exponential and the Weibull distribution from…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Zelong Bi , Irfan Durmić , Steven J. Miller

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the random tensor with normal distribution, which promotes the matrix normal distribution to a higher order case. Some basic knowledge on tensors are introduced before we focus on the random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Changqing Xu , Kaijie Xu

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a day or night any-weather imaging modality that is an important tool in remote sensing. Most existing SAR image formation methods result in a maximum a posteriori image which approximates the reflectivity…

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The variance-gamma (VG) distributions form a four-parameter family which includes as special and limiting cases the normal, gamma and Laplace distributions. Some of the numerous applications include financial modelling and distributional…

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Skewed generalizations of the normal distribution have been a topic of great interest in the statistics community due to their diverse applications across several domains. One of the most popular skew normal distributions, due to its…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-05 Narayan Srinivasan

In regression models fitted to data from complex survey designs, sampling weights often incorporate non-essential variation, inflating variance estimates. Stabilized weights mitigate this issue by adjusting sampling weights to account for…

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This undergraduate thesis focuses on calculating maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in the generalized Gamma distribution using the SeLF algorithm. As an extension of the Gamma distribution, the generalized Gamma distribution can…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 Yufei Cai

We explore the estimation of generalized additive models using basis expansion in conjunction with Bayesian model selection. Although Bayesian model selection is useful for regression splines, it has traditionally been applied mainly to…

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