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Special Issue "Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics"

A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 December 2023 | Viewed by 1507

Special Issue Editors

Departamento de Física, Universidad Católica del Norte, Av. Angamos 0610, Antofagasta 3580000, Chile
Interests: systems out of equilibrium; nonlinear phenomena; complex systems; Monte Carlo simulation
Departamento de Física, Universidad Católica del Norte, Av. Angamos 0610, Antofagasta 3580000, Chile
Interests: statistical physics; plasma physics; complex systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Monte Carlo simulations are broad computational tools and techniques based on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results related to problems such as numerical integration, optimization, and generating draws from a probability distribution. They are frequently employed in mathematical and physical systems in cases where the use of other approaches is impossible. Different strategies include modeling phenomena with significant input uncertainty, such as calculating risk in business and mathematics and evaluating multidimensional definite integrals with complicated boundary conditions. This Special Issue aims to showcase simulation of phenomena with significant uncertainty in inputs and systems with many coupled degrees of freedom that have applications in engineering, climate change, computational biology, artificial intelligence for games, applied statistics, and stochastic optimization, among other related topics.

Dr. Sergio Curilef
Dr. Francisco Calderón
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • statistical physics
  • complex systems
  • risk
  • economic modeling
  • biology models
  • climate change
  • stochastic optimization

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Stochastic Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Linear Mixed-Effects Model with Interactions in the Presence of Incomplete Data
Entropy 2023, 25(3), 473; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25030473 - 08 Mar 2023
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a new algorithm based on stochastic expectation maximization (SEM) to deal with the problem of unobserved values when multiple interactions in a linear mixed-effects model (LMEM) are present. We test the effectiveness of the proposed [...] Read more.
The purpose of this paper is to propose a new algorithm based on stochastic expectation maximization (SEM) to deal with the problem of unobserved values when multiple interactions in a linear mixed-effects model (LMEM) are present. We test the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with the stochastic approximation expectation maximization (SAEM) and Monte Carlo Markov chain (MCMC) algorithms. This comparison is implemented to highlight the importance of including the maximum effects that can affect the model. The applications are made on both simulated psychological and real data. The findings demonstrate that our proposed SEM algorithm is highly preferable to the other competitor algorithms. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics)
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