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Recently, there has been growing attention to study uncertainty measures for doubly truncated random variables. In this paper, the concept of varextropy for doubly truncated random variables is introduced. The changes of this measure under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Raheleh Zamini , Somayeh Ghafouri , Faranak Goodarzi

Extropy and its properties are explored to quantify the uncertainty. In this paper, we obtain alternative expressions for cumulative residual extropy and negative cumulative extropy. We obtain simple estimators of cumulative (residual)…

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Entropy is a measure of self-information which is used to quantify losses. Entropy was developed in thermodynamics, but is also used to compare probabilities based on their deviating information content. Corresponding model uncertainty is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Alois Pichler , Ruben Schlotter

Weighting methods are popular tools for estimating causal effects; assessing their robustness under unobserved confounding is important in practice. In the following paper, we introduce a new set of sensitivity models called "variance-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-14 Melody Huang , Samuel D. Pimentel

To overcome the drawbacks of Shannon's entropy, the concept of cumulative residual and past entropy has been proposed in the information theoretic literature. Furthermore, the Shannon entropy has been generalized in a number of different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chanchal Kundu , Antonio Di Crescenzo , Maria Longobardi

In biomedical studies, we are often interested in the association between different types of covariates and the times to disease events. Because the relationship between the covariates and event times is often complex, standard survival…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-19 Hoi Min Ng , Kin Yau Wong

Parametric statistical methods play a central role in analyzing risk through its underlying frequency and severity components. Given the wide availability of numerical algorithms and high-speed computers, researchers and practitioners often…

Applications · Statistics 2025-06-17 Michael R. Powers , Jiaxin Xu

This study explores information measures based on extropy, introducing dynamic relative extropy measures for residual and past lifetimes, and investigating their various properties. Furthermore, the study analyzes the relationships between…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-11 Saranya P. , Sunoj S. M.

In many statistical studies, the measure of uncertainties like entropy, extropy, varentropy and varextropy of a distribution function is of prime interest. This paper proposes estimators of extropy and varextropy. Proposed estimators are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Santosh Kumar Chaudhary , Nitin Gupta

This paper deals with the nonparametric density estimation of the regression error term assuming its independence with the covariate. The difference between the feasible estimator which uses the estimated residuals and the unfeasible one…

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This article investigates nonparametric estimation of variance functions for functional data when the mean function is unknown. We obtain asymptotic results for the kernel estimator based on squared residuals. Similar to the finite…

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This paper develops a variance estimation framework for matching estimators that enables valid population inference for treatment effects. We provide theoretical analysis of a variance estimator that addresses key limitations in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-16 Xiang Meng , Aaron Smith , Luke Miratrix

We investigate the problem of weight uncertainty originally proposed by [Blundell et al. (2015). Weight uncertainty in neural networks. In International conference on machine learning, 1613-1622, PMLR.] in the context of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Moein Monemi , Morteza Amini , S. Mahmoud Taheri , Mohammad Arashi

In statistical analysis, quantifying uncertainties through measures such as entropy, extropy, varentropy, and varextropy is of fundamental importance for understanding distribution functions. This paper investigates several properties of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Santosh Kumar Chaudhary , Nitin Gupta

Stemming from information-theoretic learning, the correntropy criterion and its applications to machine learning tasks have been extensively explored and studied. Its application to regression problems leads to the robustness enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yunlong Feng

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

Most networks encountered in nature, society, and technology have weighted edges, representing the strength of the interaction/association between their vertices. Randomizing the structure of a network is a classic procedure used to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 Filipi N. Silva , Sadamori Kojaku , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Recently, Extropy was introduced by Lad, Sanfilippo and Agr\`o as a complement dual of Shannon Entropy. In this paper, we propose dynamic versions of Extropy for doubly truncated random variables as measures of uncertainty called Interval…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Francesco Buono , Osman Kamari , Maria Longobardi

Estimating causal effects from observational data informs us about which factors are important in an autonomous system, and enables us to take better decisions. This is important because it has applications in selecting a treatment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Plabon Shaha , Talha Islam Zadid , Ismat Rahman , Md. Mosaddek Khan

In this paper, we propose nonparametric estimators for varextropy function of an absolutely continuous random variable. Consistency of the estimators is established under suitable regularity conditions. Moreover, a simulation study is…

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