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In this paper, the problem of the order of approximation for the multivariate sampling Kantorovich operators is studied. The cases of the uniform approximation for uniformly continuous and bounded functions/signals belonging to Lipschitz…
Given sufficiently many components, it is often cited that finite mixture models can approximate any other probability density function (pdf) to an arbitrary degree of accuracy. Unfortunately, the nature of this approximation result is…
This paper discusses the properties of a modified version of the Stancu variant Sz\'asz-Mirakjan Kantorovich type operators. We determine the order of approximation in terms of the modulus of continuity and second-order of smoothness, and…
In this paper, we introduce Mellin-Steklov exponential samplingoperators of order $r,r\in\mathbb{N}$, by considering appropriate Mellin-Steklov integrals. We investigate the approximation properties of these operators in continuousbounded…
In this paper we construct Stancu type q-Kantrovich-Sz\'asz-Mirakjan operators generated by Dunkl generalization of the exponential function. We obtain some approximation results using the Korovkin approximation theorem and the weighted…
Given a sequence of Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities in $L_2$ on a compact space, Gr\"ochenig in \cite{G} discussed weighted least squares approximation and least squares quadrature. Inspired by this work, for all $1\le p\le\infty$, we…
We study the approximation of arbitrary distributions $P$ on $d$-dimensional space by distributions with log-concave density. Approximation means minimizing a Kullback--Leibler-type functional. We show that such an approximation exists if…
his paper deals with approximating properties of the newly defined $q$-generalization of the Sz\'{a}sz operators in the case $q>1$. Quantitative estimates of the convergence in the polynomial weighted spaces and the Voronovskaja's theorem…
Mixture distributions are a workhorse model for multimodal data in information theory, signal processing, and machine learning. Yet even when each component density is simple, the differential entropy of the mixture is notoriously hard to…
This paper shows that large nonparametric classes of conditional multivariate densities can be approximated in the Kullback--Leibler distance by different specifications of finite mixtures of normal regressions in which normal means and…
Finite mixture models provide a flexible framework for approximating and estimating multivariate probability densities. We study mixtures formed from translated and rescaled copies of a fixed density kernel and obtain explicit results for…
We study posterior contraction rates for mixing measures in homoscedastic location-scale mixture models with infinitely many components. While posterior convergence at the level of densities is well understood, ensuring convergence of the…
We develop a prior probability model for temporal Poisson process intensities through structured mixtures of Erlang densities with common scale parameter, mixing on the integer shape parameters. The mixture weights are constructed through…
Let $(X,\mathcal{B},m,\tau)$ be a dynamical system with $\ds (X,\mathcal{B},m)$ a probability space and $\ds \tau$ an invertible, measure preserving transformation. The present paper deals with the almost everywhere convergence in…
This paper proposes a unified class of generalized location-scale mixture of multivariate elliptical distributions and studies integral stochastic orderings of random vectors following such distributions. Given a random vector…
Theoretical guarantees are established for a standard estimator in a semi-parametric finite mixture model, where each component density is modeled as a product of univariate densities under a conditional independence assumption. The focus…
Mixtures of Linear Regressions (MLR) is an important mixture model with many applications. In this model, each observation is generated from one of the several unknown linear regression components, where the identity of the generated…
We develop a flexible Erlang mixture model for survival analysis. The model for the survival density is built from a structured mixture of Erlang densities, mixing on the integer shape parameter with a common scale parameter. The mixture…
Mixture distributions arise in many parametric and non-parametric settings -- for example, in Gaussian mixture models and in non-parametric estimation. It is often necessary to compute the entropy of a mixture, but, in most cases, this…
The class of location-scale finite mixtures is of enduring interest both from applied and theoretical perspectives of probability and statistics. We prove the following results: to an arbitrary degree of accuracy, (a) location-scale…