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The use of quadratic residues to construct matrices with specific determinant values is a familiar problem with connections to many areas of mathematics and statistics. Our research has focused on using cubic residues to construct matrices…
In order to compute the log-likelihood for high dimensional spatial Gaussian models, it is necessary to compute the determinant of the large, sparse, symmetric positive definite precision matrix, Q. Traditional methods for evaluating the…
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These Lecture Notes are a brief introduction to the Malliavin calculus. In particular, different notions of Malliavin derivative found in the literature are considered and compared.
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A certain determinant is evaluated by guessing and computing the LU-decomposition.
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