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The posterior distribution in a nonparametric inverse problem is shown to contract to the true parameter at a rate that depends on the smoothness of the parameter, and the smoothness and scale of the prior. Correct combinations of these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-24 B. T. Knapik , A. W. van der Vaart , J. H. van Zanten

The inverse Gaussian (IG) is one of the most famous and considered distributions with positive support. We propose a convenient mode-based parameterization yielding the reparametrized IG (rIG) distribution; it allows/simplifies the use of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-17 Antonio Punzo

We consider the problem of estimating the division rate of a size-structured population in a nonparametric setting. The size of the system evolves according to a transport-fragmentation equation: each individual grows with a given transport…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Marie Doumic Jauffret , Marc Hoffmann , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret , Vincent Rivoirard

We consider nonparametric Bayesian estimation inference using a rescaled smooth Gaussian field as a prior for a multidimensional function. The rescaling is achieved using a Gamma variable and the procedure can be viewed as choosing an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-26 A. W. van der Vaart , J. H. van Zanten

In real applications, the construction of prior and acceleration of sampling for posterior are usually two key points of Bayesian inversion algorithm for engineers. In this paper, q-analogy of Gaussian distribution, q-Gaussian distribution,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Zhiliang Deng , Xiaomei Yang

We consider the nonparametric regression estimation problem of recovering an unknown response function f on the basis of spatially inhomogeneous data when the design points follow a known compactly supported density g with a finite number…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-29 Anestis Antoniadis , Marianna Pensky , Theofanis Sapatinas

We study a probabilistic numerical method for the solution of both boundary and initial value problems that returns a joint Gaussian process posterior over the solution. Such methods have concrete value in the statistics on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-13 Philipp Hennig , Søren Hauberg

Inverse problems use physical measurements along with a computational model to estimate the parameters or state of a system of interest. Errors in measurements and uncertainties in the computational model lead to inaccurate estimates. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Vishwas Rao , Adrian Sandu

In this paper an iterated function system on the space of distribution functions is built. The inverse problem is introduced and studied by convex optimization problems. Some applications of this method to approximation of distribution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Stefano M. Iacus , Davide La Torre

We study estimation and inference on causal parameters under finely stratified rerandomization designs, which use baseline covariates to match units into groups (e.g. matched pairs), then rerandomize within-group treatment assignments until…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-01-07 Max Cytrynbaum

A qualitative comparison of total variation like penalties (total variation, Huber variant of total variation, total generalized variation, ...) is made in the context of global seismic tomography. Both penalized and constrained…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 Ignace Loris , Caroline Verhoeven

Applications in data science, shape analysis and object classification frequently require comparison of probability distributions defined on different ambient spaces. To accomplish this, one requires a notion of distance on a given class of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham

The reparameterization trick has become one of the most useful tools in the field of variational inference. However, the reparameterization trick is based on the standardization transformation which restricts the scope of application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Anbang Wu , Shuangxi Chen , Chunming Wu

In this chapter, we identify fundamental geometric structures that underlie the problems of sampling, optimisation, inference and adaptive decision-making. Based on this identification, we derive algorithms that exploit these geometric…

A procedure based on a Mixture Density Model for correcting experimental data for distortions due to finite resolution and limited detector acceptance is presented. Addressing the case that the solution is known to be non-negative, in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-09 Nikolai Gagunashvili

In this paper we study the inverse of so-called unfair permutations, and explore various properties of them. Our investigation begins with comparing this class of permutations with uniformly random permutations, and showing that they behave…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-01 İlker Arslan , Ümit Işlak , Cihan Pehlivan

The method of maximum entropy has proven to be a rather powerful way to solve the inverse problem consisting of determining a probability density $f_S(s)$ on $[0,\infty)$ from the knowledge of the expected value of a few generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Henryk Gzyl

Finite population inference is a central goal in survey sampling. Probability sampling is the main statistical approach to finite population inference. Challenges arise due to high cost and increasing non-response rates. Data integration…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-13 Shu Yang , Jae Kwang Kim

In distributed optimization and distributed numerical linear algebra, we often encounter an inversion bias: if we want to compute a quantity that depends on the inverse of a sum of distributed matrices, then the sum of the inverses does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Michał Dereziński , Michael W. Mahoney

The Inverse Problem for the estimation of a point-wise approximation error occurring at the discretization and solving of the system of partial differential equations is addressed. The set of the differences between the numerical solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Aleksey Alekseev , Alexander Bondarev