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We find large deviation principles for the degree distribution and the proportion of isolated vertices for the near intermediate random geometric graph models on n vertices placed uniformly in [0, 1]^d, for d in N. In the course of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Kwabena Doku-Amponsah

This paper considers a variation of the full-information secretary problem where the random variables to be observed are independent but not necessary identically distributed. The main result is a sharp lower bound for the optimal win…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Pieter C. Allaart , Jose A. Islas

This paper studies the properties of the probability density function $p_{\alpha,\nu, n}(\mathbf{x})$ of the $n$-variate generalized Linnik distribution whose characteristic function $\varphi_{\alpha,\nu,n}(\boldsymbol{t})$ is given by…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-05 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

Let X be a locally compact Abelian group. We consider linear forms of independent random variables with values in X. In doing so, one of the coefficients of the linear forms is a random variable with a Bernoulli distribution. For some…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Gennadiy Feldman

The paper compares probabilistic and exact methods for estimating the asymptotic behavior of summation arithmetic functions, and estimates of the results are obtained by precise methods. Conditions for stationarity in the broad sense are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Victor Volfson

In this paper we study approximations for boundary crossing probabilities for the moving sums of i.i.d. normal random variables. We propose approximating a discrete time problem with a continuous time problem allowing us to apply developed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Jack Noonan , Anatoly Zhigljavsky

We derive the sharp non-asymptotical uniform estimations for tails of distributions for classical normed sums of centered normed independent random vectors having a moderate decreasing individual tails of summands.

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-08 M. R. Formica , E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

We consider the problem of estimating the total probability of all symbols that appear with a given frequency in a string of i.i.d. random variables with unknown distribution. We focus on the regime in which the block length is large yet no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Aaron B. Wagner , Pramod Viswanath , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

Let $X_n$ be a discrete time Markov chain with state space $S$ (countably infinite, in general) and initial probability distribution $\mu^{(0)} = (P(X_0=i_1),P(X_0=i_2),\cdots,)$. What is the probability of choosing in random some $k \in…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Nikolaos Halidias

This paper establishes sharp dimension-free concentration inequalities and expectation bounds for the deviation of the sum of simple random tensors from its expectation. As part of our analysis, we use generic chaining techniques to obtain…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Omar Al-Ghattas , Jiaheng Chen , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

The distribution $\mathsf{RGG}(n,\mathbb{S}^{d-1},p)$ is formed by sampling independent vectors $\{V_i\}_{i = 1}^n$ uniformly on $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ and placing an edge between pairs of vertices $i$ and $j$ for which $\langle V_i,V_j\rangle…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Kiril Bangachev , Guy Bresler

Two sequential estimators are proposed for the odds p/(1-p) and log odds log(p/(1-p)) respectively, using independent Bernoulli random variables with parameter p as inputs. The estimators are unbiased, and guarantee that the variance of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Luis Mendo

A 2022 paper arXiv:2009.10305v4 introduced the notion of true positive and negative skewness for continuous random variables via Fr\'echet $p$-means. In this work, we find novel criteria for true skewness, establish true skewness for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Yevgeniy Kovchegov , Alex Negrón , Clarice Pertel , Christopher Wang

We propose a framework for computing, optimizing and integrating with respect to a smooth marginal likelihood in statistical models that involve high-dimensional parameters/latent variables and continuous low-dimensional hyperparameters.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Timothée Stumpf-Fétizon , Jonathan Weare

We provide $L^1$ estimates for a class of transport equations containing singular integral operators. While our main application is for a specific problem in General Relativity we believe that the phenomenon which our result illustrates is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergiu Klainerman , Igor Rodnianski

We use geometric methods to obtain a sharp exponential integrability result for boundary traces of monotone Sobolev functions defined on the unit ball.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pekka Pankka , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Kai Rajala

A definition for the statistical significance by constructing a correlation between the normal distribution integral probability and the p-value observed in an experiment is proposed, which is suitable for both counting experiment and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Yongsheng Zhu

In this paper, we have considered a uniform probability distribution supported by a stretched Sierpi\'nski triangle. For this probability measure, the optimal sets of $n$-means and the $n$th quantization errors are determined for all $n\geq…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Dogan Comez , Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

A method is described for predicting extremes values beyond the span of historical data. The method - based on extending a curve fitted to a location- and scale-invariant variation of the double-logarithmic QQ-plot - is simple and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Allan McRobie

An expression for the joint probability distribution of the principal curvatures at an arbitrary point in the ensemble of isosurfaces defined on isotropic Gaussian random fields on Rn is derived. The result is obtained by deriving symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paulo R. S. Mendonca , Rahul Bhotika , James V. Miller