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We present a first principle approach to obtain analytical predictions for spherically-averaged cosmic densities in the mildly non-linear regime that go well beyond what is usually achieved by standard perturbation theory. A large deviation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Cora Uhlemann , Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon , Francis Bernardeau , Paulo Reimberg

In this letter, we present a novel exponentially embedded families (EEF) based classification method, in which the probability density function (PDF) on raw data is estimated from the PDF on features. With the PDF construction, we show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-24 Bo Tang , Steven Kay , Haibo He , Paul M. Baggenstoss

We propose a gate-based quantum algorithm for the prediction step of Bayesian state estimation based on the Fokker-Planck equation on a discretized position-velocity state space. The probability density is encoded in the amplitudes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Felix Govaers

A step by step procedure to derive analytically the exact dynamical evolution equations of the probability density functions (PDF) of well known kinetic wealth exchange economic models is shown. This technique gives a dynamical insight into…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-20 Xavier Calbet , Jose-Luis Lopez , Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

The one-point probability distribution function (pdf) of the large-scale density field is an important tool to follow the evolution of cosmological structures. In this paper we present a new model for this pdf for all regimes and all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Valageas , Dipak Munshi

Parton distribution function (PDF) at small $x$ in a fast-moving proton is investigated within an upgraded parton model that includes parton splitting with branching cascades and parton fusion. In the region of moderately small $x$, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 M. L. Nekrasov

We have discovered analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF) of photons that are multiply scattered in relativistic flows, under the assumption of isotropic and inelastic scattering. These expressions characterize…

The Weyl-Wigner representation of quantum mechanics allows one to map the density operator in a function in phase space - the Wigner function - which acts like a probability distribution. In the context of statistical mechanics, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Marcos Gil de Oliveira , Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida

We investigate the single-point velocity probability density function (PDF) in three-dimensional fully developed homogeneous isotropic turbulence within the framework of PDF equations focussing on deviations from Gaussianity. A joint…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-18 Michael Wilczek , Anton Daitche , Rudolf Friedrich

One of the core problems of modern statistics is to approximate difficult-to-compute probability densities. This problem is especially important in Bayesian statistics, which frames all inference about unknown quantities as a calculation…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-11 David M. Blei , Alp Kucukelbir , Jon D. McAuliffe

We present a new Bayesian method for reconstructing the parent distributions of X-ray spectral parameters of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in large surveys. The method uses the probability distribution function (PDF) of posteriors obtained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Lingsong Ge , Stéphane Paltani , Dominique Eckert , Mara Salvato

We introduce a novel two-step approach for estimating a probability density function (pdf) given its samples, with the second and important step coming from a geometric formulation. The procedure involves obtaining an initial estimate of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-14 Sutanoy Dasgupta , Debdeep Pati , Anuj Srivastava

Power-law probability density function (PDF) plays a key role in both subdiffusion and L\'{e}vy flights. However, sometimes because of the finite of the lifespan of the particles or the boundedness of the physical space, tempered power-law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Yanyan Yu , Weihua Deng , Yujiang Wu , Jing Wu

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density of molecular clouds provides essential information about the structure of molecular cloud gas and condensed structures out of which stars may form. In general, the PDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jörg Fischera

The statistical approach is used to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. At first it is assumed that the partons are free particles and the light-front kinematic variables are employed to extract the Bjorken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-27 A. Mirjalili , M. Dehghani , M. M. Yazdanpanah

The normal distribution is used as a unified probability distribution, however, our researcher found that it is not good agreed with the real-life dynamical system's data. We collected and analyzed representative naturally occurring data…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Wei Ping Cheng , Zhi Hong Zhang , Pu Wang

We review various methods used to estimate uncertainties in quantum correlation functions, such as parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using a toy model of a PDF, we compare the uncertainty estimates yielded by the traditional Hessian and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 N. T. Hunt-Smith , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas , M. J. White

We establish sparsity and summability results for coefficient sequences of Wiener-Hermite polynomial chaos expansions of countably-parametric solutions of linear elliptic and parabolic divergence-form partial differential equations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Dinh Dũng , Van Kien Nguyen , Christoph Schwab , Jakob Zech

Two types of parameter dependent generalizations of classical matrix ensembles are defined by their probability density functions (PDFs). As the parameter is varied, one interpolates between the eigenvalue PDF for the superposition of two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter J. Forrester , Eric M. Rains

This paper concerns the analysis of random second order linear differential equations. Usually, solving these equations consists of computing the first statistics of the response process, and that task has been an essential goal in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Marc Jornet , Julia Calatayud , Olivier P. Le Ma^itre , Juan Carlos Cortés