Efficient estimation of tail probabilities involving heavy tailed random variables is amongst the most challenging problems in Monte-Carlo simulation. In the last few years, appli...
Suppose t1, ..., tn are independent random variables which take value either 0 or 1, and Y is a multi-variable polynomial in ti's with positive coefficients. We give a conditi...
We present an algorithm for computing the probability density function of the product of two independent random variables, along with an implementation of the algorithm in a compu...
We prove general exponential moment inequalities for averages of [0,1]valued iid random variables and use them to tighten the PAC Bayesian Theorem. The logarithmic dependence on t...
We present a new method to show concentration of the upper tail of random variables that can be written as sums of variables with plenty of independence. We compare our method with...
Background: Intrinsic fluctuations due to the stochastic nature of biochemical reactions can have large effects on the response of biochemical networks. This is particularly true ...
David Adalsteinsson, David McMillen, Timothy C. El...
We generalize the DEnv (Distribution envelope determination) method for bounding the result of arithmetic operations on random variables with unknown dependence to higher-dimension...
Let X be a discrete random variable with support S and f : S S be a bijection. Then it is wellknown that the entropy of X is the same as the entropy of f(X). This entropy preserva...
New families of Fisher information and entropy power inequalities for sums of independent random variables are presented. These inequalities relate the information in the sum of n ...