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29 June 2023

In this research, using the Poisson-type Miller-Ross distribution, we introduce new subclasses Sakaguchi type of star functions with respect to symmetric and conjugate points and discusses their characteristic properties and coefficient estimates. Fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,142 Views
17 Pages

Statistical Prediction of Future Sports Records Based on Record Values

  • Christina Empacher,
  • Udo Kamps and
  • Grigoriy Volovskiy

11 January 2023

Point prediction of future record values based on sequences of previous lower or upper records is considered by means of the method of maximum product of spacings, where the underlying distribution is assumed to be a power function distribution and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,694 Views
23 Pages

A Novel Distributed Consensus-Based Approach to Solve the Economic Dispatch Problem Incorporating the Valve-Point Effect and Solar Energy Sources

  • Muhammad Moin,
  • Waqas Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Rehan,
  • Muhammad Iqbal,
  • Nasim Ullah,
  • Kamran Zeb and
  • Waqar Uddin

30 December 2022

This research focused on the design of a distributed approach using consensus theory to find an optimal solution of the economic dispatch problem (EDP) by considering the quadratic cost function along with the valve-point effect of generators and ren...

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  • Open Access
676 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2025

Regarding the discretization issue in the process of a simultaneous approach for dynamic optimization problems, a configuration strategy based on the density function has been proposed for the finite element distribution of dynamic optimization probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,697 Views
22 Pages

The continuous Bernoulli distribution is defined on the unit interval and has a unique property related to fractiles. A fractile is a position on a probability density function where the corresponding surface is a fixed proportion. This article prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
132 Views
18 Pages

Quantifying Degeneracy in Two-Point Statistics for Small Two-Phase Composite Structures

  • Ethan R. Cluff,
  • Ryan L. Weber,
  • Christopher G. Nyborg,
  • Blake A. Jensen,
  • Sterling G. Baird and
  • David T. Fullwood

25 February 2026

Volume fraction, or one-point statistics, is commonly used to homogenize composites. However, it contains no geometric information regarding the spatial distribution of the phases. The spatial distribution can be characterized using higher-order stat...

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  • Open Access
608 Views
21 Pages

1 November 2025

The increasing global demand for electricity has heightened the need for stable and reliable power distribution systems. Disruptions in power distribution can cause substantial economic losses and societal impact, underscoring the importance of accur...

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  • Open Access
839 Views
17 Pages

4 August 2025

The Karp and Rabin (KR) fingerprint is a special hash-like function widely utilized for efficient string matching. Recently, Sharma et al.leveraged its linear and symmetric properties to facilitate private database queries. However, their approach ma...

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  • Open Access
161 Citations
16,600 Views
15 Pages

6 March 2019

Functional areas are the basic spatial units in which cities or development zones implement urban plans and provide functions. Internet map big data technology provides a new method for the identification and spatial analysis of functional areas. Bas...

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1,749 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2023

In the realm of building demolition, ensuring the uniform distribution of energy from multiple sources is of paramount significance for the systematic deconstruction of large structures. This study presents an integrated methodology that combines gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,843 Views
14 Pages

A Cost Function for the Uncertainty of Matching Point Distribution on Image Registration

  • Yuxia Bian,
  • Meizhen Wang,
  • Yongbin Chu,
  • Zhihong Liu,
  • Jun Chen,
  • Zhiye Xia and
  • Shuhong Fang

Computing the homography matrix using the known matching points is a key step in computer vision for image registration. In practice, the number, accuracy, and distribution of the known matching points can affect the uncertainty of the homography mat...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,998 Views
28 Pages

Scalable Single-Phase Multi-Functional Inverter for Integration of Rooftop Solar-PV to Low-Voltage Ideal and Weak Utility Grid

  • Venkata Subrahmanya Raghavendra Varaprasad Oruganti,
  • Venkata Sesha Samba Siva Sarma Dhanikonda and
  • Marcelo Godoy Simões

Integration of rooftop solar-PV (RTSPV) systems and extensive use of nonlinear loads in the low-voltage distribution system (LVDS) leads to poor power quality (PQ). Therefore, it is necessary to address the issues leading to poor PQ at the point of c...

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24 Citations
4,770 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2020

Urban spatial structure has a significant impact on the sustainable development of cities. An important step of urban spatial structure analysis is the identification of urban centers. From the perspective of urban function distribution, this study d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,754 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2020

A global uncertainty environment, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has affected the manufacturing industry severely in terms of supply and demand balancing. So, it is common that one stage statistical process control (SPC) chart affects the next-stage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,414 Views
19 Pages

A Fast Calculation Method of Far-Field Intensity Distribution with Point Spread Function Convolution for High Energy Laser Propagation

  • Huimin Ma,
  • Pengfei Zhang,
  • Jinghui Zhang,
  • Haiqiu Liu,
  • Chengyu Fan,
  • Chunhong Qiao,
  • Weiwei Zhang and
  • Xiaohong Li

13 May 2021

The turbulence effect, thermal blooming effect, laser beam aberration, platform jitter, and other effects in the process of high energy laser propagation in the atmosphere will cause serious degradation of laser beam quality, which will have a negati...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,142 Views
24 Pages

12 January 2021

This work proposes a new distribution defined on the unit interval. It is obtained by a novel transformation of a normal random variable involving the hyperbolic secant function and its inverse. The use of such a function in distribution theory has n...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,170 Views
36 Pages

A Review: Construction of Statistical Distributions

  • Kai-Tai Fang,
  • Yu-Xuan Lin and
  • Yu-Hui Deng

23 November 2025

Statistical modeling is fundamentally based on probability distributions, which can be discrete or continuous and univariate or multivariate. This review focuses on the methods used to construct these distributions, covering both traditional and newl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
854 Views
30 Pages

Detecting Clinical Risk Shift Through log–logistic Hazard Change-Point Model

  • Shobhana Selvaraj Nadar,
  • Vasudha Upadhyay and
  • Savitri Joshi

29 April 2025

The change–point problem is about identifying when a pattern or trend shifts in time–ordered data. In survival analysis, change–point detection focuses on identifying alterations in the distribution of time–to–event data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,571 Views
17 Pages

The Influence of Spatial Grid Division on the Layout Analysis of Urban Functional Areas

  • Shaohua Luo,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Mingyi Du,
  • Siyan Gao,
  • Pengfei Wang and
  • Xiaoyu Liu

The identification of urban functional areas is essential for urban planning and sustainable development. Spatial grids are the basic units for the implementation of urban plans and management by cities or development zones. The emergence of internet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,906 Views
23 Pages

12 December 2022

Whilst several methods exist to provide sample estimates of the probability distribution function at several points, for the probability density of continuous stochastic variables, only a gross representation through the histogram is typically used....

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,967 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2022

In this paper, we consider a class of additive functionals of a finite or countable collection of the group frequencies of an empirical point process that corresponds to, at most, a countable partition of the sample space. Under broad conditions, it...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,647 Views
10 Pages

21 April 2020

A new hybrid diffractive optical element (HDOE) was designed by randomly multiplexing an axicon and a Fresnel zone lens. The HDOE generates two mutually coherent waves, namely a conical wave and a spherical wave, for every on-axis point object in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,011 Views
13 Pages

One Cut-Point Phase-Type Distributions in Reliability. An Application to Resistive Random Access Memories

  • Christian Acal,
  • Juan E. Ruiz-Castro,
  • David Maldonado and
  • Juan B. Roldán

28 October 2021

A new probability distribution to study lifetime data in reliability is introduced in this paper. This one is a first approach to a non-homogeneous phase-type distribution. It is built by considering one cut-point in the non-negative semi-line of a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,612 Views
16 Pages

Research on Student’s T-Distribution Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Local Features

  • Houpeng Sun,
  • Yingchun Li,
  • Huichao Guo,
  • Chenglong Luan,
  • Laixian Zhang,
  • Haijing Zheng and
  • Youchen Fan

31 July 2024

LiDAR offers a wide range of uses in autonomous driving, remote sensing, urban planning, and other areas. The laser 3D point cloud acquired by LiDAR typically encounters issues during registration, including laser speckle noise, Gaussian noise, data...

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  • Open Access
1,841 Views
17 Pages

30 May 2023

Higher derivatives are important to interpret the physical process. However, higher derivatives calculated from measured data often deviate from the real ones because of measurement errors. A novel method for data fitting without higher derivatives v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,488 Views
16 Pages

The Spatial Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Measured Redshifts from 24 Years of Observation

  • Zsolt Bagoly,
  • István Horvath,
  • István I. Racz,
  • Lajos G. Balázs and
  • L. Viktor Tóth

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous objects known: they outshine their host galaxies, making them ideal candidates for probing large-scale structure. Our aim is to determine the Spatial Two-Point Correlation Function of the GRBs with spectr...

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2 Citations
2,690 Views
31 Pages

Properties of a Random Bipartite Geometric Associator Graph Inspired by Vehicular Networks

  • Kaushlendra Pandey,
  • Abhishek K. Gupta,
  • Harpreet S. Dhillon and
  • Kanaka Raju Perumalla

4 December 2023

We consider a point process (PP) generated by superimposing an independent Poisson point process (PPP) on each line of a 2D Poisson line process (PLP). Termed PLP-PPP, this PP is suitable for modeling networks formed on an irregular collection of lin...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,168 Views
12 Pages

12 January 2021

The transversity and the Sivers distribution functions of quarks incorporate important information about the transverse-spin and transverse-momentum structure of nucleons. We show how these distributions can be directly determined point by point from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,910 Views
26 Pages

Analytical Solution to DGLAP Integro-Differential Equation in a Simple Toy-Model with a Fixed Gauge Coupling

  • Gustavo Álvarez,
  • Gorazd Cvetič,
  • Bernd A. Kniehl,
  • Igor Kondrashuk and
  • Ivan Parra-Ferrada

27 February 2023

We consider a simple model for QCD dynamics in which DGLAP integro-differential equation may be solved analytically. This is a gauge model which possesses dominant evolution of gauge boson (gluon) distribution and in which the gauge coupling does not...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,322 Views
12 Pages

25 July 2023

The optimization of sensor locations in water distribution networks has been extensively studied. Previous studies of highly sensitive nodes are usually distributed in a certain area, which leads to redundant information in the sensor network. This i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,235 Views
11 Pages

In a point set in dimension superior to 1, the statistical distribution of the number of pairs of points as a function of distance between the points of the pair is not uniform. This distribution is not considered in a large number of classic methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,577 Views
12 Pages

1 December 2021

Several methods have been recently proposed to calculate configurational entropy, based on Boltzmann entropy. Some of these methods appear to be fully thermodynamically consistent in their application to landscape patch mosaics, but none have been sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,465 Views
15 Pages

30 November 2020

We present an unsupervised method to detect anomalous time series among a collection of time series. To do so, we extend traditional Kernel Density Estimation for estimating probability distributions in Euclidean space to Hilbert spaces. The estimate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
2,614 Views
20 Pages

On a New Result on the Ratio Exponentiated General Family of Distributions with Applications

  • Rashad A. R. Bantan,
  • Farrukh Jamal,
  • Christophe Chesneau and
  • Mohammed Elgarhy

15 April 2020

In this paper, we first show a new probability result which can be concisely formulated as follows: the function 2 G β / ( 1 + G α ) , where G denotes a baseline cumulative distribution function of a continuous distribution, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,594 Views
28 Pages

Covariate-related response variables that are measured on the unit interval frequently arise in diverse studies when index and proportion data are of interest. A regression on the mean is commonly used to model this relationship. Instead of relying o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,675 Views
12 Pages

Kernel density estimation (KDE) is widely adopted to show the overall crime distribution and at the same time obscure exact crime locations due to the confidentiality of crime data in many countries. However, the confidential level of crime locationa...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,804 Views
22 Pages

7 April 2022

In this paper, several related estimation problems are addressed from a Bayesian point of view, and optimal estimators are obtained for each of them when some natural loss functions are considered. The problems considered are the estimation of a regr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,115 Views
19 Pages

26 February 2025

This paper presents a new bivariate mixture Lindley power function (BMLPF) distribution that employs a conditional approach with non-identical asymmetric distributions, distinguishing itself by the incorporation of a functional shape parameter. Vario...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,514 Views
12 Pages

Measurement of Gradient Strain Fields with Fiber-Optic Sensors

  • Valerii Matveenko,
  • Natalia Kosheleva,
  • Grigorii Serovaev and
  • Andrey Fedorov

30 December 2022

The results of measuring gradient strain fields by embedded or mounted point fiber-optic sensors based on Bragg gratings and distributed fiber-optic sensors based on Rayleigh scattering are discussed. Along with the experiment, the results of numeric...

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  • Open Access
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28 Pages

16 June 2025

This paper investigates the distributed state estimation problem for the linear system against non-Gaussian noise, where every sensor commutates information only within its adjacent sensors without the need for a fusion center. Correntropy is a simil...

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  • Open Access
1,042 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2025

Many scholars are interested in modeling complex data in an effort to create novel probability distributions. This article proposes a novel class of distributions based on the inverse of the exponentiated Weibull hazard rate function. A particular me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,716 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2022

We propose a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to compute the expression of quasi-stationary distribution. Based on the fixed-point formulation of quasi-stationary distribution, we minimize the KL-divergence of two Markovian path distributions ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,230 Views
11 Pages

Research on Modeling Method for Optimal Allocation of Wellhead Targets in Large Well Clusters

  • Liupeng Wang,
  • Haonan Duan,
  • Zhikun Liu,
  • Yuanchao Peng and
  • Xuyang Liu

14 August 2024

The paper proposes a genetic ant colony algorithm that integrates genetic and ant colony algorithms, enhancing the heuristic function of the latter, to address target point distribution issues in large well clusters. This algorithm utilizes genetic a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,134 Views
18 Pages

4 June 2024

The present paper investigates flaw strength distributions established using various flexural tests on batches of SiC bar test specimens, namely four-point bending as well as three-point bending tests with different span lengths. Flaw strength is pro...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,914 Views
12 Pages

2 March 2020

Evolution of distribution of strategies in game theory is an interesting question that has been studied only for specific cases. Here I develop a general method to extend analysis of the evolution of continuous strategy distributions given a quadrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,691 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2021

In geometry and topology, a family of probability distributions can be analyzed as the points on a manifold, known as statistical manifold, with intrinsic coordinates corresponding to the parameters of the distribution. Consider the exponential famil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,199 Views
26 Pages

A New Truncated Lindley-Generated Family of Distributions: Properties, Regression Analysis, and Applications

  • Mohamed Hussein,
  • Gabriela M. Rodrigues,
  • Edwin M. M. Ortega,
  • Roberto Vila and
  • Howaida Elsayed

20 September 2023

We present the truncated Lindley-G (TLG) model, a novel class of probability distributions with an additional shape parameter, by composing a unit distribution called the truncated Lindley distribution with a parent distribution function G(x). The pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,104 Views
18 Pages

9 April 2025

The digitization of uninterrupted operation in the distribution network is of great significance for improving people’s quality of life and promoting economic development. As an important means of achieving digitization, point cloud technology...

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