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We derive a closed form solution for the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two generalized gamma distributions. These notes are meant as a reference and provide a guided tour towards a result of practical interest that is rarely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Christian Bauckhage

In this paper, we study the $L_p$-Gaussian Minkowski problem, which arises in the $L_p$-Brunn-Minkowski theory in Gaussian probability space. We use Aleksandrov's variational method with Lagrange multipliers to prove the existence of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Weimin Sheng , Ke Xue

The traditional Minkowski distances are induced by the corresponding Minkowski norms in real-valued vector spaces. In this work, we propose novel statistical symmetric distances based on the Minkowski's inequality for probability densities…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Frank Nielsen

The lognormal distribution describing, e.g., exponentials of Gaussian random variables is one of the most common statistical distributions in physics. It can exhibit features of broad distributions that imply qualitative departure from the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Romeo , V. Da Costa , F. Bardou

The extremely high precision of current astronomical observations demands a much better theoretical treatment of relativistic effects in the propagation of electromagnetic signals through variable gravitational fields of isolated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-19 Sergei Kopeikin , Pavel Korobkov

This paper examines the statistical properties of a distributional form that arises from pooled testing for the prevalence of a binary outcome. Our base distribution is a two-parameter distribution using a prevalence and excess intensity…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-11 Ben O'Neill , Angus McLure

This paper gives a systematic study to the general dual-polar Orlicz-Minkowski problem (e.g., Problem \ref{general-dual-polar}). This problem involves the general dual volume $\widetilde{V}_G(\cdot)$ recently proposed in \cite{GHWXY, GHXY}…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Sudan Xing , Deping Ye , Baocheng Zhu

The $L_{p}$ Gaussian Minkowski problem for $C$-pseudo-cones is studied in this paper, and the existence and uniqueness results are established. This extends our previous work on the Minkowski problem for $C$-pseudo-cones with respect to the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Junjie Shan , Wenchuan Hu

An approximation method is presented for probabilistic inference with continuous random variables. These problems can arise in many practical problems, in particular where there are "second order" probabilities. The approximation, based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Ross D. Shachter

For testing goodness of fit it is very popular to use either the chi square statistic or G statistics (information divergence). Asymptotically both are chi square distributed so an obvious question is which of the two statistics that has a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Peter Harremoës , Gábor Tusnády

Group classification of the generalized complex Ginzburg-Landau equations is presented. An approach to group classification of systems of reaction-diffusion equations with general diffusion matrix is developed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-07-23 A. G. Nikitin

We study an optimization problem originated from the Grothendieck constant. A generalized normal equation is proposed and analyzed. We establish a correspondence between solutions of the general normal equation and its dual equation.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Naihuan Jing , Yibo Liu , Jiacheng Sun , Chengrui Zhao , Haoran Zhu

A Gaussian distribution of cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations is a generic prediction of inflation. Upcoming high-resolution maps of the microwave background will allow detailed tests of Gaussianity down to small angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Serge Winitzki , Arthur Kosowsky

The q-Gaussian is a probability distribution generalizing the Gaussian one. In spite of a q-normal distribution is popular, there is a problem when calculating an expectation value with a corresponding normalized distribution and not a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Nahla Ben Salah

In this research, Minkowski type functions which are constructed on certain probability distributions, are introduced. There are investigated differential, integral, and other properties of these functions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Symon Serbenyuk

In this paper we introduce generalised Markov numbers and extend the classical Markov theory for the discrete Markov spectrum to the case of generalised Markov numbers. In particular we show recursive properties for these numbers and find…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Oleg Karpenkov , Matty van-Son

Information theory is an outstanding framework to measure uncertainty, dependence and relevance in data and systems. It has several desirable properties for real world applications: it naturally deals with multivariate data, it can handle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Valero Laparra , J. Emmanuel Johnson , Gustau Camps-Valls , Raul Santos-Rodríguez , Jesus Malo

We provide a new and simple characterization of the multivariate generalized Laplace distribution. In particular, this result implies that the product of a Gaussian matrix with independent and identically distributed columns by an…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Pierre-Alexandre Mattei

Motivated by the need, in some Bayesian likelihood free inference problems, of imputing a multivariate counting distribution based on its vector of means and variance-covariance matrix, we define a generic multivariate discrete…

Applications · Statistics 2011-03-28 Marcos Capistrán , J. Andrés Christen

The study of Gaussian states has arisen to a privileged position in continuous variable quantum information in recent years. This is due to vehemently pursued experimental realisations and a magnificently elegant mathematical framework. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Gerardo Adesso , Sammy Ragy , Antony R. Lee