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Using common samples to numerically estimate pairwise equality of three random variables
Let $X,Y,Z$ be three discrete random variables which I can numerically sample. I need to numerically estimate the probability that $X=Y$ and the probability that $X=Z$. I would like to know whether ...
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Can computers take uniform samples from a polytope?
For each $r \in \mathbb N $ write $\mathbb Z/ 10^r = \{a/10^r: a \in \mathbb Z\}$ and $P(r)$ for the lattice $(\mathbb Z/10^r)^N \subset \mathbb R^N$.
Suppose the plane $P \subset \mathbb R^N$ is ...
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Efficiency of importance sampling in terms of the size of the the support of sampling distribution
In importance sampling, one proposes to compute an integral $I:=\mathbb E_{x \sim P}[h(x)]$ by rewritting it as
$$
I=\mathbb E_{x \sim Q}\left[w(x)h(x)\right],\text{ with }w(x):=\frac{p(x)}{q(x)},
$$
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Use Importance sampling for multimodal and multivariate distribution draws, how to choose proposal distribution?
I'm in trouble trying to generate samples following a particular distribution which is not numerically known perfectly. Let us consider a $R^n$ space provided with an orthonormal base $( e_{1},...,e_{...
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Supremum of expectations over a family distributions close to a base distribution
Let $p$ be a probability distribution on a space $X$ , $f:X \rightarrow \mathbb R_+$ be a measureable function, and $0 < \alpha \le 1 \le \beta < \infty$. Define a sub-collection $\mathcal Q \...
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Approximate in $W_1$ sense, an empirical distribution with restriction of true distribution on a set
Let $\mu$ be a probability distribution on a metric space $X=(X,d)$ (to avoid unnecessary complications, assume the full filtration $2^X$) and let $x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_N$ be a sample of size $N$ drawn i....
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Draw samples from distribitions in the neighborhood of a fixed distribution
Disclaimer
Sorry in advance for vagueness. I'm still trying to get my ideas right on this one.
Setup
So, let $P$ be a distribution on a Euclidean space $X$ with an $\ell_p$ metric, and let $P_\...
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Expectation inequality for sampling without replacement
Is the following proposition correct?
$X_1, X_2, X_3$ are uniformly at random sampled from a finite set $\mathcal X$ without replacement.
$f : \mathcal X^2 \rightarrow \mathbb R_{\ge0}$ is symmetric:...
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Minimize the variance of a Boltzmann distribution
N.B.: Sorry for cross-posting from https://stats.stackexchange.com/posts/347804/edit (I realized it was the wrong venue for the question, but couldn't find an easy way to transfer the question here).
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Uniform sampling of random connected graph with given number of vertices/edges
I am looking for algorithms for the exact uniform sampling of connected labelled graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. By "exact" I mean that every such graph should be generated with precisely (not ...
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Sampling with non-uniform probabilities
Let $p_1,p_2,...,p_n$ are given probabilities. ($\sum_{i=1}^n p_i =1, p_i \geq 0 $). Is there any distribution, which picks $k\leq n$ distinct elements from $1,2,...,n$ such that $P(i \in S) = k p_i$ ...
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Plancharel-Pólya inequality for functions of exponential type
If $f(z)$ is an entire function of exponential type $\tau$ and $p$ a positive number such that that $$\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|f(x)|^pdx<\infty$$
then it can be proven that $$\int_{-\infty}^{+\...
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Combinatorial computational problem about 0-1 vectors and sampling algorithms
Let $M \in \{0,1\}^{m\times n}$, where $n\gg 1$ and $m\le n$. A procedure consisting of the following three steps is repeated $t\gg 1$ times:
A row $\require{amsmath} \boldsymbol{r}$ of $M$ picked in ...
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Sampling set: relatively dense and uniformly discrete
The Paley-Wiener space of a domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ is the set $$PW_\Omega:=\{f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^d):\text{supp}\widehat{f}\subset\Omega\}.$$
We say that a discrete set $\Lambda\subset\...
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Randomly covering a sphere
Let $S$ be the $n$-dimensional unit sphere in the Euclidean space. Further,
let $X_1,\ldots,X_k$ and $Y_1,\ldots,Y_m$ be iid $S$-valued random variables with common (unknown) distribution $\mu$. With $...
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How to measure distribution of high-dimensional data
I have to methods of projecting random samples in $\mathbb{R}^n$ onto a manifold defined by $C(q)=0$, which is a lower-dimensional subset. Now, samples in $\mathbb{R}^n$ are uniformly distributed. ...
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RMHMC sampling in non-parametric setup
The aim is to sample distributions using Fisher information (as mass matrix in Hamiltonian MCMC sampling). Details can be found in http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.190.580&...
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Expected value of parametrized Gibbs distribution w.r.t another probability distribution
Let $\mu$ be a compactly supported probability measure on a finite-dimensional euclidean space (for simplicity) $\mathbb E$, and suppose $\mu$ has density. For a random point $x \sim \mu$,
consider ...
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How to sample a path between 2 states in a Markov chain
Given an ergodic Markov chain and 2 states $x$ and $y$, how may one algorithmically sample a path (of finite length) $x =: s_0 \rightarrow s_1 \rightarrow \ldots \rightarrow s_T = y$ between $x$ and $...
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Bounding function by random sampling
Let $f(x): \mathbf{C} \to \mathbf{C}$ be a complex valued polynomial of degree $n$, and suppose that for a random point $z$ sampled uniformly from the unit disk $|z|\leq 1$ we have
$$\mathbf{P}_{z}( |...
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Efficiently Sampling of Multivariate Distributions in the Vicinity of a Manifold
I am given a multivariate distribution, that maps each point of $\mathbb{R}^n$ to its probability of being drawn as sample and, the convolution $\mathcal{S_r}\times\mathcal{M}$ of a manifold $\mathcal{...
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Sampling from a particular multivariate probability distribution
Given $3$ real variables $x_1, x_2, x_3 \equiv \bf{x}$, consider their probability density function (PDF)
\begin{equation}
P({\bf x}) = C \, p(x_1) \cdots p(x_3) \exp[f({\bf x})],
\end{equation}
where ...
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What distributions fit this strange experimental model?
Suppose you have a set $\mathcal T$ of cardinlity $T$. An experiment is designed in such a way that sampling probabilities are governed by following rules. In each sampling with replacement you can ...
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2-step sampling from a conditional density
The setting is as follows:
We are given two random variables $X : \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ and $\Theta : \Omega \to T$ for some 'parameter space' $T \subset \mathbb{R}$, and
1) we know the density of $...
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Sampling Theorem for non-bandlimited Functions
The classical Shannon sampling theorem states that
a bandlimited function with $\mbox{supp } \hat f\subset [-1/2,1/2]$ can be uniquely determined by its samples $(f(i))_{i\in \mathbb{Z}}$ (The symbol $...
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Simulate a graph from a certain distribution
I am wondering if anyone can indicate whether the following is a solved problem. I don't care about time of the algorithm currently.
Consider a general probability distribution F on simple graphs ...
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Sample integer points of cross-polytope uniformly
For $r,d\in\mathbb{N}$, let
$$C_{r,d}=\{x\in\mathbb{Z}^d: \|x\|_1\le r\}\subset\mathbb{Z}^d$$
be the set of integer points of the $d$-dimensional cross-polytope with radius $r$.
What is (...
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Efficient sampling from a polytope with large number of contraints [duplicate]
As far as I know, the most popular way to sample from a polytope (in H-representation)
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{P} := \{z \in \mathbb{R}^n | (Az)_j \le b_j\; \forall j=1,2,\ldots,m\}
\end{equation}
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Uniform Sampling Subject to Linear Equalities and Non-Negativity Constraint
I'm trying to sample uniformly on the intersections of faces of several simplicies, with all coordinates being non-negative. That is, given constraints
$$A\vec{w}=\vec{b} \ \ and \ \ \vec{w} \geq \vec{...
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Sampling point uniformly at random satisfying equality constraints
First of all, I apologize in advance if the question has already been asked in some way on this site and/or if there is a widely known solution to this problem.
The description of my problem is ...
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Probabilities involving Beurling density
I am interested in calculating probabilities involving Beurling densities. Since it's likely probabilists are not familiar with the definitions, I give them below.
Definitions.
A metric space is ...
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Estimating mean and variance of a distribution based on error-prone estimates of its cdf
Suppose I have some random variable $X$ taking values in $[a, b]$ with unknown distribution (I am happy to assume the distribution is smooth, though it would be nice to not have to).
I have a ...
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Exactly sampling from a distribution with access to the probabilities only
There is a discrete distribution where integers, $k$, from $1$ to $n$ occur with probability $p_{k}$, all $p_{k}$ are unknown.
Rather than having access to the distribution we have access to $n$ ...
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Monte Carlo estimator with autocorrelated samples
Given an integration problem $I=\int{f(x)dx}$, we can construct an ordinary Monte Carlo estimator as
$E[I]=\sum\limits_i\frac{f(x_i)}{p(x_i)}$
where the samples $x_i$ are usually i.i.d. and drawn ...
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Approximating Probability Distribution by Sampling
Consider a discrete probability distribution over $n$ events. Assume that the probabilistic kernel is a black box, that is, we can only sample from it without knowing anything about the type or ...
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Sampling from a Convex Body with Many Extremal Points
Let $p_{1}, \ldots, p_{N}$ be a collection of points in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. I would like to sample uniformly from the convex hull of these $N$ points in an `efficienct' way. In my setting, I have $n$ ...
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Sampling uniformly from all possible line segments of a given length that fit inside a container
Consider that task of randomly placing a line segment of some length $L$ near a plane s.t. a point $p$ at the center of the line segment is at most a distance $H$ from the plane and intersections ...
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Stochastic process inference from partial observations
Consider a set $U$. My signal is a piece-wise constant "function"
$Sig: t \mapsto s$, i.e. the signal at time $t$ equals to some subset
$s \subset U$. One can see $Sig(t)$ as a stochastic process.
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Discretizing a cosine function?
I'd like to start by noting that for some fixed natural $N$ basis functions for my system will be generated by $f(k,x)$ as defined and explained here or in numerous other sources:
$$f(k,x) = \sqrt2 \...
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A sampling and learning question
Suppose there is an oracle that returns a number $b \in \mathbb{Z}_{n}$ whenever I press the button.
We have $b = a + e$, where $a \in \mathbb{Z}_n$ is a fixed number and $e$ is sampled according to ...
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transform a polynomial into another one upto a constant
I have a polynomial $p(x)=a_Nx^N+a_{N-1}x^{N-1}+\dots+a_0$. I want to convert this into another polynomial of same order, say $b_Ny^N+b_{N-1}y^{N-1}+\dots+b_0$. Is it possible to find a transformation ...
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Sampling without replacement until hitting a subset
I randomly sample uniformly from $ \{1,..,N \}$ without replacement until drawing a number $ \leq k$. Denote the expected number of draws by $R(N,k)$. I want a good approximation for $\sum_{k=1}^N R(...
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When can you describe a population and its component subpopulations with the same parametric family of distributions?
I believe that it is often the case that you are trying to select the best probability distribution to use to describe some phenomenon you are studying, and you have data not only for a population, ...
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Uniform sampling hemisphere and project in a specific direction [closed]
Hi,
I need to generate a 'uniform sample' over an hemisphere and once done project it in a specific vector direction.
I have try the following, but it produce some errors... maybe you have an idea ?
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Is it possible to sample uniformly on the surface of a high-dimensional polytope?
There are some pretty simple methods to do uniform sampling on the surface of high-dimensional spheres or cubes.
Are there any methods that sample uniformly on the surface of a high-dimensional ...
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Sampling uniformly from a sphere
Let $B^{n} _p= ${$ (x_1, \dots, x_n) : |x_1|^p + \dots |x_n|^p = 1 $} be the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the $\ell^p$ norm.
If $X_1,\dots,X_n$ are iid $\exp(1)$ -distributed random variables, then ...
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Estimating a sum
Sorry for the vague title but I couldn't find a better one.
I want to compute the sum $S = \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N c_i x_i$ where $c_i$s are known positive constants. The problem is that computing ...
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Random Sampling a linearly constrained region in n-dimensions…
Hi,
So here is my problem:
Given a nonlinear, discontinous, cost function $f(x_1,x_2,..,x_N)$ along with linear constraints $x_n \ge 0, \forall n$
$x_n \le c_n$
and $\sum_{n=1}^N x_n = 1$ find an ...
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Sampling from a partition of a hypercube by convex polytopes.
I have a binary space partitioning (BSP) tree which recursively partitions a hypercube using linear hyperplanes. That is, a hyperplane splits the hybercube in half, creating two convex polytopes. Each ...
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Sampling from the Birkhoff polytope
The set of $n\times n$ real, nonnegative matrices whose rows and columns sum to one forms the well-known Birkhoff polytope
Recently someone asked me if I knew
How to sample (in polynomial time) ...
