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Research situation in the field of Information Geometry
I am now doing an article survey on the field of information geometry started by S.Amari and Barndorff-Nielson. I want to know some research situation in this field.
I have read (4) and parts of (3). ...
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How is the "conformal prediction" conformal?
The question is clarified by Prof.V.Vovk. See his answer below for discussion.
Recently, early works of Gammerman, Vanpnik and Vovk[4] are rediscovered by Wasserman et.al[1] and proposed it as a ...
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Rate-Distortion theory: What is the distribution of distortion on an optimal Gaussian encoder?
If we wish to encode a gaussian source, $X\sim\mathcal{N}(0,\sigma^2)$ at rate $R$, then decode it to create an estimate $\hat{X}$, rate-distortion theory tells us that the lowest mean-squared-error ...
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Exponential deconvolution using the first derivative
There is an interesting observation using the first derivative to deconvolve an exponentially modified Gaussian:
The animation is here at terpconnect.umd.edu.
The main idea is that if we have an ...