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Reliability is probability of success in a success-failure experiment. Confidence in reliability estimate improves with increasing number of samples. Assurance sets confidence level same as reliability to create one number for easier…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Sanjay M. Joshi

This paper addresses the computational challenges in reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) of structures associated with the estimation of statistics of the objective and constraints using standard sampling methods, and overcomes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Subhayan De , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

Projected subgradient descent (PSD) has gained popularity for solving robust Markov decision processes (RMDPs) because it applies to a broader class of uncertainty sets than traditional dynamic programming. Existing work claims that RMDPs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Toshinori Kitamura , Arnob Ghosh , Alex Ayoub , Thang D. Chu , Csaba Szepesvári

Optimization problems with stochastic dominance constraints provide a possibility to shape risk by selecting a benchmark random outcome with a desired distribution. The comparison of the relevant random outcomes to the respective benchmarks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Darinka Dentcheva , Yunxuan Yi

In this paper, using the shrinkage-based approach for portfolio weights and modern results from random matrix theory we construct an effective procedure for testing the efficiency of the expected utility (EU) portfolio and discuss the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-19 Taras Bodnar , Solomiia Dmytriv , Yarema Okhrin , Nestor Parolya , Wolfgang Schmid

In this paper we extend the known methodology for fitting stable distributions to the multivariate case and apply the suggested method to the modelling of daily cryptocurrency-return data. The investigated time period is cut into 10…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-24 Szabolcs Majoros , András Zempléni

This paper proposes a new test for a change point in the mean of high-dimensional data based on the spatial sign and self-normalization. The test is easy to implement with no tuning parameters, robust to heavy-tailedness and theoretically…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-07 Feiyu Jiang , Runmin Wang , Xiaofeng Shao

Most keystroke dynamics studies have been evaluated using a specific kind of dataset in which users type an imposed login and password. Moreover, these studies are optimistics since most of them use different acquisition protocols, private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Romain Giot , Mohamad El-Abed , Christophe Rosenberger

Credit risk scorecards are logistic regression models, fitted to large and complex data sets, employed by the financial industry to model the probability of default of a potential customer. In order to ensure that a scorecard remains a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-24 J. du Pisanie , J. S. Allison , I. J. H. Visagie

A probabilistic approach to the stable matching problem has been identified as an important research area with several important open problems. When considering random matchings, ex-post stability is a fundamental stability concept. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Haris Aziz , Gergely Csáji , Péter Biró

This paper describes an R package implementing large sample tests and confidence intervals (based on the central limit theorem) for various parameters. The one and two sample mean and variance contexts are considered. The statistics for all…

Statistical analysis is the tool of choice to turn data into information, and then information into empirical knowledge. To be valid, the process that goes from data to knowledge should be supported by detailed, rigorous guidelines, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Carlo A. Furia , Richard Torkar , Robert Feldt

Static analysis tools are frequently used to scan the source code and detect deviations from the project coding guidelines. Given their importance, linters are often introduced to classrooms to educate students on how to detect and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Salma Abdullah AlOmar , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer

This tutorial paper presents a hands-on perspective on probabilistic model checking with the Storm model checker. Storm is a decade-old model checker that excels in performance and a rich Python-based ecosystem, which makes it easy to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Matthias Volk , Linus Heck , Sebastian Junges , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Tim Quatmann

The usage of Python idioms is popular among Python developers in a formative study of 101 performance-related questions of Python idioms on Stack Overflow, we find that developers often get confused about the performance impact of Python…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zejun Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Xin Xia , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu , Qinghua Lu

Accurate simulation of complex physical systems enables the development, testing, and certification of control strategies before they are deployed into the real systems. As simulators become more advanced, the analytical tractability of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Lucas Barcelos , Rafael Oliveira , Rafael Possas , Lionel Ott , Fabio Ramos

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of $t$ steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

We use the domination number of a parametrized random digraph family called proportional-edge proximity catch digraphs (PCDs) for testing multivariate spatial point patterns. This digraph family is based on relative positions of data points…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-17 Elvan Ceyhan

The stochastic block model is widely used for detecting community structures in network data. However, the research interest of much literature focuses on the study of one sample of stochastic block models. How to detect the difference of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-21 Kang Fu , Jianwei Hu , Seydou Keita , Hang Liu

Existing Python libraries and tools lack the ability to efficiently compute statistical test results for large datasets in the presence of missing values. This presents an issue as soon as constraints on runtime and memory availability…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Fabian Woller , Lis Arend , Christian Fuchsberger , Markus List , David B. Blumenthal