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Gaussian white noise model in application
I am interested in applications (to data) of non-parametric statistics, and my question concerned the Gaussian white noise model defined by,
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X_{t_1, \ldots, t_d}=f\left(t_1, \ldots, t_d\right) d ...
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Is Steven J. Miller's "research" on election fraud sound? And was he paid for it? [closed]
I recently encountered the following piece regarding alleged massive voter fraud in Pennsylvania:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-11/...
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Relevant mathematics to the recent coronavirus outbreak
I would like to ask about (old* and new) reliable mathematical literature relevant to various mathematical aspects of the recent coronavirus outbreak: In particular, standard statistical/mathematical ...
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A question involving directional derivatives and differential inequalities
This is a follow-up question to A question about copulas and directional derivatives. Since no answer was given, I am going to precise the definition of copula. I am interested in proving (or ...
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On Mathematical Analysis of MathSciNet & MathOverflow
This question has two original motivations: mathematical and social.
The mathematical motivation is mainly based on what I have seen about Zipf's law here and there. The Zipf's law simply states ...
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What is the sum capacity of a scalar gaussian broadcast channel?
"On the Achievable Throughput of a Multiantenna Gaussian Broadcast Channel" by Giuseppe Carie and Shlomo Shamai talks, in part, about the following type of link (paraphrasing):
A transmitter with $...
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Where to read about this kind of "measure of irredundancy" of a set from a family of sets?
Studying a very practical problem from psychometrics, I encountered the following construction.
Let $(X,\mu)$ be a measure space; if preferred, you can presume $\mu$ is a probability measure. In any ...
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name for $\underset{x}{\operatorname{argmin}} \displaystyle\sum\limits_{i=1}^n |x_i - x|$
Given a real-valued data set $ x_1, \dots, x_n $, what do you call the quantity
$$\underset{x}{\operatorname{argmin}} \displaystyle\sum\limits_{i=1}^n |x_i - x|$$
This seems like a pretty basic ...
