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The polarization of light conveys crucial information about the spatial ordering and optical properties of a specimen. However, precise polarization measurement in challenging conditions, including constrained spaces, low light levels, and…

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Robust Bayesian analysis has been mainly devoted to detecting and measuring robustness w.r.t. the prior distribution. Many contributions in the literature aim to define suitable classes of priors which allow the computation of variations of…

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We present a novel technique to parametrize experimental data, based on the construction of a probability measure in the space of functions, which retains the full experimental information on errors and correlations. This measure is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joan Rojo

Channel polarization is a method of constructing capacity achieving codes for symmetric binary-input discrete memoryless channels (B-DMCs) [1]. In the original paper, the construction complexity is exponential in the blocklength. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-23 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka

Polarization is a basic property of light and is fundamentally linked to the internal geometry of a source of radiation. Polarimetry complements photometric, spectroscopic, and imaging analyses of sources of radiation and has made possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 S. Trippe

Polarization imaging can yield crucial information in multiple applications of remote sensing, such as characterization of clouds, aerosols, and the Aurora Borealis. Some applications require sub-percent polarimetric sensitivity and…

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The classical concept of bounded completeness and its relation to sufficiency and ancillarity play a fundamental role in unbiased estimation, unbiased testing, and the validity of inference in the presence of nuisance parameters. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Marc Hallin , Bas Werker , Bo Zhou

Binary classification is a task that involves the classification of data into one of two distinct classes. It is widely utilized in various fields. However, conventional classifiers tend to make overconfident predictions for data that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shoma Yokura , Akihisa Ichiki

The prospects for accomplishing X-ray polarization measurements appear to have grown in recent years after a more than 35-year hiatus. Unfortunately, this long hiatus has brought with it some confusion over the statistical uncertainties…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Martin C. Weisskopf , Ronald F. Elsner , Stephen L. O'Dell

Polarization maintaining (PM) fibers are meant to maintain linear polarization along a preferred axis. A PM fiber can be seen as the fiber version of a very high order waveplate, designed with different refractive indices along two…

Confidence region prediction is a practically useful extension to the commonly studied pattern recognition problem. Instead of predicting a single label, the constraint is relaxed to allow prediction of a subset of labels given a desired…

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We consider the problem of discriminating between states of a specified set with maximum confidence. For a set of linearly independent states unambiguous discrimination is possible if we allow for the possibility of an inconclusive result.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah Croke , Erika Andersson , Stephen M. Barnett , Claire R. Gilson , John Jeffers

We have derived the relationship between polarization and intensity fluctuations due to point sources. In the case of a Poisson distribution of a population with uniform evolution properties and constant polarization degree, polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. De Zotti , C. Gruppioni , P. Ciliegi , C. Burigana , L. Danese

A filament is a high density, connected region in a point cloud. There are several methods for estimating filaments but these methods do not provide any measure of uncertainty. We give a definition for the uncertainty of estimated filaments…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-10 Yen-Chi Chen , Christopher R. Genovese , Larry Wasserman

This paper investigates universal polar coding schemes. In particular, a notion of ordering (called convolutional path) is introduced between probability distributions to determine when a polar compression (or communication) scheme designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Emmanuel Abbe

We obtain an expression for the probability density function (PDF) of partially developed speckles formed by light with an arbitrary degree of polarization. From the probability density we calculate the detection threshold corresponding to…

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How much unavoidable randomness is generated by a Positive Operator Valued Measure (POVM)? We address this question using two complementary approaches. First we study the variance of a real variable associated to the POVM outcomes. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Serge Massar

In this article, we investigate the problem of entanglement characterization with polarization measurements combined with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). A realistic scenario is considered with measurement results distorted by random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Artur Czerwinski

Since the first detection by the DASI experiment in 2002, measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have grown into an important role in testing our understanding of conditions in the early universe and…

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