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The joint statistics of partial sums of ordered random variables (RVs) are often needed for the accurate performance characterization of a wide variety of wireless communication systems. A unified analytical framework to determine the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sung Sik Nam , Hong-Chuan Yang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Dong In Kim

For a sample of absolutely bounded i.i.d. random variables with a continuous density the cumulative distribution function of the sample variance is represented by a univariate integral over a Fourier series. If the density is a polynomial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-10 T. Royen

We build a sharp approximation of the whole distribution of the sum of iid heavy-tailed random vectors, combining mean and extreme behaviors. It extends the so-called 'normex' approach from a univariate to a multivariate framework. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Marie Kratz , Evgeny Prokopenko

We leverage neural networks as universal approximators of monotonic functions to build a parameterization of conditional cumulative distribution functions (CDFs). By the application of automatic differentiation with respect to response…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-09 Pawel Chilinski , Ricardo Silva

This paper presents a distributed estimator for a deterministic parametric physical field sensed by a homogeneous sensor network and develops a new transformed expression for the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on the variance of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Salvatore Talarico , Natalia A. Schmid , Marwan Alkhweldi , Matthew C. Valenti

The cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a non-central $\chi^2$-distributed random variable (RV) is often used when measuring the outage probability of communication systems. For adaptive transmitters, it is important but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Jinfei Wang , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Normalizing flows model a complex target distribution in terms of a bijective transform operating on a simple base distribution. As such, they enable tractable computation of a number of important statistical quantities, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Chandramouli Shama Sastry , Andreas Lehrmann , Marcus Brubaker , Alexander Radovic

The distributional reinforcement learning (RL) approach advocates for representing the complete probability distribution of the random return instead of only modelling its expectation. A distributional RL algorithm may be characterised by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Thibaut Théate , Antoine Wehenkel , Adrien Bolland , Gilles Louppe , Damien Ernst

This paper presents exact formulas for the probability distribution function (PDF) and moment generating function (MGF) of the sum-product of statistically independent but not necessarily identically distributed (i.n.i.d.) Nakagami-$m$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hamid Amiriara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Farid Ashtiani , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

In this paper, the statistical properties of the product of independent and non-identically distributed mixture Gamma (MG) random variables (RVs) are provided first. Specifically, simple exact closed-form expressions for the probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hussien Al-Hmood , Rafed Sabbar Abbas , H. S. Al-Raweshidy

Hyperbolic balance laws with uncertain (random) parameters and inputs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Quantification of uncertainty in predictions derived from such laws, and reduction of predictive uncertainty via data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Francesca Boso , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

In this paper, a very accurate approximation method for the statistics of the sum of M\'{a}laga-$\mathcal{M}$ random variates with pointing error (MRVs) is proposed. In particular, the probability density function of MRV is approximated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Elmehdi Illi , Faissal El Bouanani , Fouad Ayoub

In this work we derive a variant of the classic Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem, which asserts uniform convergence of the empirical Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) to the CDF of the underlying distribution. Our variant allows for tighter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Noga Alon , Moshe Babaioff , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Amir Yehudayoff

This article focuses on estimating relative transfer functions (RTFs) for beamforming applications. Traditional methods often assume that spectra are uncorrelated, an assumption that is often violated in practical scenarios due to factors…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Giovanni Bologni , Richard C. Hendriks , Richard Heusdens

The Fisher-Snedecor $\mathcal{F}$ distribution has been recently proposed as a more accurate and mathematically tractable composite fading model than traditional established models in some practical cases. In this paper, we firstly derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Hongyang Du , Jiayi Zhang , Kostas P. Peppas , Hui Zhao , Bo Ai , Xiaodan Zhang

The method of distributions is developed for systems that are governed by hyperbolic conservation laws with stochastic forcing. The method yields a deterministic equation for the cumulative density distribution (CDF) of a system state,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Rik J. L. Rutjens , Gustaaf B. Jacobs , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Standard uniform convergence results bound the generalization gap of the expected loss over a hypothesis class. The emergence of risk-sensitive learning requires generalization guarantees for functionals of the loss distribution beyond the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-29 Liu Leqi , Audrey Huang , Zachary C. Lipton , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli

Distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) enhances the understanding of the effects of the randomness in the environment by letting agents learn the distribution of a random return, rather than its expected value as in standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Zifan Wang , Yulong Gao , Siyi Wang , Michael M. Zavlanos , Alessandro Abate , Karl H. Johansson

We study the convergence in distribution norms in the Central Limit Theorem for non identical distributed random variables that is $$ \varepsilon_{n}(f):={\mathbb{E}}\Big(f\Big(\frac 1{\sqrt…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Vlad Bally , Lucia Caramellino , Guillaume Poly

Simulation-based inference methods that feature correct conditional coverage of confidence sets based on observations that have been compressed to a scalar test statistic require accurate modeling of either the p-value function or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-18 Ali Al Kadhim , Harrison B. Prosper