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Self-normalized processes arise naturally in statistical applications. Being unit free, they are not affected by scale changes. Moreover, self-normalization often eliminates or weakens moment assumptions. In this paper we present several…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor H. de la Pena , Michael J. Klass , Tze Leung Lai

By using the associated and restricted Stirling numbers of the second kind, we give some generalizations of the poly-Bernoulli numbers. We also study their arithmetical and combinatorial properties. As an application, at the end of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Takao Komatsu , Kalman Liptai , István Mező

An inequality, which combines the concept of completely monotone functions with the theory of divided differences, is proposed. It is a straightforward generalization of a result, recently introduced by two of the present authors.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Vasiliki Bitsouni , Nikolaos Gialelis , Dan-Stefan Marinescu

This paper presents a modified iterative approach to solve the variational inequality problem using the double inertial technique in the context of a real Hilbert space. Our iterative technique involves a projection onto a generalized…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Watanjeet Singh , Sumit Chandok

This paper studies the problem of testing whether a system of linear equality and inequality constraints admits a solution when the coefficients of that system may have to be estimated. We show that a wide range of inferential questions in…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-11 Leonard Goff , Eric Mbakop

We study pairs of consecutive odd numbers through a straightforward indexing. We focus in particular on twin primes and their distribution. With a counting argument, we calculate the limit of an alternating sum that is equal to 1 which…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Marc Wolf , FranÇOis Wolf , FranÇOis-Xavier Villemin

Asymmetric statistical errors arise for experimental results obtained by Maximum Likelihood estimation, in cases where the number of results is finite and the log likelihood function is not a symmetric parabola. This note discusses how…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger Barlow

We prove a multivariate version of Bernstein's inequality about the probability that degenerate $U$-statistics take a value larger than some number $u$. This is an improvement of former estimates for the same problem which yields an…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Major

Associated to each random variable $Y$ having a finite moment generating function, we introduce a different generalization of the Stirling numbers of the second kind. Some characterizations and specific examples of such generalized numbers…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-14 José A. Adell , Alberto Lekuona

We consider the variance of a function of $n$ independent random variables and provide new inequalities which, in particular, extend previous results obtained for symmetric functions in the i.i.d.~setting. For instance, we obtain various…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Olivier Bousquet , Christian Houdré

In this paper, an alternative Discrete skew Logistic distribution is proposed, which is derived by using the general approach of discretizing a continuous distribution while retaining its survival function. The properties of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-07 Deepesh Bhati , Subrata Chakraborty , Snober Gowhar Lateef

Azuma's inequality is a tool for proving concentration bounds on random variables. The inequality can be thought of as a natural generalization of additive Chernoff bounds. On the other hand, the analogous generalization of multiplicative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 William Kuszmaul , Qi Qi

We propose a new approach for deriving probabilistic inequalities based on bounding likelihood ratios. We demonstrate that this approach is more general and powerful than the classical method frequently used for deriving concentration…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Xinjia Chen

During the course of an ongoing work on the small-$x$ behaviour of parton distribution functions, some identities have been found which involve Stirling numbers of the first and the second kind, as well as binomial coefficients. Without any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-29 Stefano Frixione

Score matching is an alternative to maximum likelihood (ML) for estimating a probability distribution parametrized up to a constant of proportionality. By fitting the ''score'' of the distribution, it sidesteps the need to compute this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chirag Pabbaraju , Dhruv Rohatgi , Anish Sevekari , Holden Lee , Ankur Moitra , Andrej Risteski

We obtain variational inequalities for some classes of bilinear averages of one variable, generalizing the variational inequalities for averages of R. Jones {\it et al}. As an application we get almost everywhere convergence for the ergodic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Honghai Liu

We calculate the formal analytic expansions of certain formal translations in a space of formal iterated logarithmic and exponential variables. The results show how the algebraic structure naturally involves the Stirling numbers of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Thomas J. Robinson

In this paper our aim is to show some mean value inequalities for the modified Bessel functions of the first and second kinds. Our proofs are based on some bounds for the logarithmic derivatives of these functions, which are in fact…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Árpád Baricz , Saminathan Ponnusamy , Matti Vuorinen

New Hardy type inequality with double singular kernel and with additional logarithmic term in a ball $B\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is proved. As an application an estimate from below of the first eigenvalue for Dirichlet problem of p-Laplacian in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Nikolai Kutev , Tsviatko Rangelov

We consider the combinatorial problem where $p$ players aim to a complete set of $N$ different types of items (species) which are uniformly distributed. Let the random variables $T_{N(i)},\,\,i=1,2,\cdots,p$ denoting the number of trials…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Aristides V. Doumas