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I am writing a document which often refers to two standard Probability Mass Functions (PMFs), one is a uniform distribution (e.g. U(1,5)=[0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2]) and the other has only a single...
23 April 2015 9,482 10 View
I mean does the skewness have the validity and reliability to distribute the results in all fields? or there is a criticism in some fields?
16 April 2015 8,254 5 View
I have a matrix 'A' with dimensions MXN and I want to calculate the pairwise Symmetrical uncertainty (SU) matrix. The problem is that some variables have infinite entropy (H) value which results...
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can any body help me in translated gamma process to approximate aggregate claims which is compound poisson? I wanna make simmulation using R..thank you very much.
02 April 2015 5,784 3 View
random variable X, random variable Y1,Y2,Y3...Yn are independent identically distributed we have known P(X=1|Y=y)=f(y); consider P(X=1|Y1=y1)=f(y1),...
31 March 2015 4,353 2 View
Greetings I have an intuitive idea of frequentist vs Bayesian paradigm of probability theory. But I need a rigorous explanation. Scientists view it as a philosophical venture, but in seismology it...
03 March 2015 9,476 14 View
Hi all, Who can help me to understand the use of chernoff bound in algorithmic, and the aim of using it ? Also how we formulate the problem? Thank you, best.
03 March 2015 8,748 1 View
I have a doubt in plotting an ROC , I have following parameters 1) Probablity of detection Theoritical (Pd_theory) 2) Probablity of false alarm assumed (Pfa) 3) Probablity of detection simulated...
03 March 2015 7,938 17 View
In the classic brain teaser ''Monty Hall Problem''( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) the higher chances of you winning the car after switching your door choice is explained by the...
02 February 2015 2,953 1 View
In section 3 when authors describe model, they assumed that the i-th row of P follows Dirichlet distribution. Where is their reference? Why do they assume that?
02 February 2015 5,349 3 View
The function 1/Gamma(1-z) (where Gamma is the standard Gamma function) can easily be extended to a function defined on the whole complex plain. So its Taylor series around z=0 must have...
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I need to model the response X fungicide concentration to calculate ED50. Most of the recent articles seem to use a linear regression of inhibition x log10 of concentration, but due to my chosen...
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I have the Kullback Divergence in its continuous form and I need it in its discrete form.
19 December 2014 2,854 1 View
Ladies and gentlemen, I wanna know the main articles that describes the most important techniques about parameter estimation for CTMCs. Also, in a few words, what are the most used...
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Once I got the Times To Failure (ttf) of the different pieces, I implemented the PLE algorithm and then the Weibull distribution, in order to achieve the reliability expression ( R(x) ).Now I must...
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This may be a stupid question but, apart from the normal covariance matrix made up from cov(x1,x2); cov(x2,x3);(x1,x3), is there a way of calculating cov (x1,x2,x3)? Thank you!
12 December 2014 5,481 13 View
I would like to capture the dependence between returns using regime switching copulas and I'd like to know if there is any code currently available. More in details, I would like to estimate the...
12 December 2014 6,949 4 View
Is it possible to obtain a pdf of a random variable Y expressed as: Y=a*log(b+X), where a,b are constants and X is a random variable with Chi-squared distribution. Thanks
12 December 2014 5,175 6 View
in paper public key encryption with keyword search i read that attack algorithm has epsilon advantage and make qH hash function and make qT trapdoor queries.
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