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In the present paper new insights into the study of the Non-central Dirichlet distribution are provided. This latter is the analogue of the Dirichlet distribution obtained by replacing the Chi-Squared random variables involved in its…

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The (general) hypoexponential distribution is the distribution of a sum of independent exponential random variables. We consider the particular case when the involved exponential variables have distinct rate parameters. We prove that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-16 George P. Yanev

This paper presents a new method to estimate systematic errors in the maximum-likelihood regression of count data. The method is applicable in particular to X-ray spectra in situations where the Poisson log-likelihood, or the Cash…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. Bonamente

We consider a random field $\phi(\mathbf{r})$ in $d$ dimensions which is largely concentrated around small `hotspots', with `weights', $w_i$. These weights may have a very broad distribution, such that their mean does not exist, or else is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-14 Michael Wilkinson , Boris Veytsman

Observed clusters should be modelled by considering the distribution function to be a random variable that quantifies the degree of excitation of the system's normal modes. A system of canonical coordinates for the space of DFs is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Jun Yan Lau , James Binney

We obtain an approximate Gaussian distribution from a Poisson distribution after doing a change of variable. A new chi-square function is obtained which can be used for parameter estimations and goodness-of-fit testing when adjusting curves…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 F. M. L. Almeida , M. Barbi , M. A. B. do Vale

For a sample of absolutely bounded i.i.d. random variables with a continuous density the cumulative distribution function of the sample variance is represented by a univariate integral over a Fourier series. If the density is a polynomial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-10 T. Royen

Multivariate generalized Gamma convolutions are distributions defined by a convolutional semi-parametric structure. Their flexible dependence structures, the marginal possibilities and their useful convolutional expression make them…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Oskar Laverny

This paper presents a set of Stata commands and Mata functions to evaluate different distributional quantities of the multivariate normal distribution, and a particular type of non-central multivariate t distribution. Specifically, their…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-29 Michael Grayling , Adrian Mander

In this paper an analytic expression is given for the bounds of the distribution function of the sum of dependent normally distributed random variables. Using the theory of copulas and the important Frechet bounds the dependence structure…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Walter Schneider

The Fisher-Snedecor $\mathcal{F}$ distribution has been recently proposed as a more accurate and mathematically tractable composite fading model than traditional established models in some practical cases. In this paper, we firstly derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Hongyang Du , Jiayi Zhang , Kostas P. Peppas , Hui Zhao , Bo Ai , Xiaodan Zhang

The Friedman test has been extensively applied as a nonparametric alternative to the conventional F procedure for comparing treatment effects in randomized complete block designs. A chi-square distribution provides a convenient…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Show-Li Jan , Gwowen Shieh

We present estimators for entropy and other functions of a discrete probability distribution when the data is a finite sample drawn from that probability distribution. In particular, for the case when the probability distribution is a joint…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 David R. Wolf , David H. Wolpert

We prove that the $f$-divergences between univariate Cauchy distributions are all symmetric, and can be expressed as strictly increasing scalar functions of the symmetric chi-squared divergence. We report the corresponding scalar functions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Frank Nielsen , Kazuki Okamura

This study investigates component wise estimation of ordered variances of scale mixture of two normal distributions. For this study two special loss functions are considered namely squared error loss function and entropy loss function. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Shrajal Bajpai , Lakshmi Kanta Patra

A generalization of the Poisson distribution based on the generalized Mittag-Leffler function $E_{\alpha, \beta}(\lambda)$ is proposed and the raw moments are calculated algebraically in terms of Bell polynomials. It is demonstrated, that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Richard Herrmann

We study a well-known problem concerning a random variable $Z$ uniformly distributed between two independent random variables. A new extension has been introduced for this problem and fairly large classes of randomly weighted average…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Hazhir Homei

Parametric distributions are an important part of statistics. There is now a voluminous literature on different fascinating formulations of flexible distributions. We present a selective and brief overview of a small subset of these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Sharon X. Lee , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

For testing independence it is very popular to use either the $\chi^{2}$-statistic or $G^{2}$-statistics (mutual information). Asymptotically both are $\chi^{2}$-distributed so an obvious question is which of the two statistics that has a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Peter Harremoës

We derive closed form expressions for the lower expectations that correspond to total variation distance and chi-squared divergence balls around a probability mass function over a finite set.

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Jasper De Bock