Publications related to Algorithms for calculating variance

Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for early DESI data

We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) data collected during the initial 2 months of operat ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Stochastic distributed learning with gradient quantization and double-variance reduction

Sebastian Urban Stich, Konstantin Mishchenko

We consider distributed optimization over several devices, each sending incremental model updates to a central server. This setting is considered, for instance, in federated learning. Various schemes have been designed to compress the model updates in orde ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Strategic Insights into Engineering Parameters Affecting Cell Type-Specific Uptake of DNA-Based Nanomaterials

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Alice Comberlato, Hugo José Rodriguez Franco, Marianna Mainardi Koga

DNA-based nanomaterials are gaining popularity as uniform and programmable bioengineering tools as a result of recent solutions to their weak stability under biological conditions. The DNA nanotechnology platform uniquely allows decoupling of engineering p ...

American Chemical Society2022

The DESI N-body Simulation Project - II. Suppressing sample variance with fast simulations

Andrei Variu, Cheng Zhao, Yu Yu, Hanyu Zhang

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will construct a large and precise three-dimensional map of our Universe. The survey effective volume reaches similar to 20 h(-3) Gpc(3). It is a great challenge to prepare high-resolution simulations with a much ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Euclid : Effects of sample covariance on the number counts of galaxy clusters

Georges Meylan, Yi Wang, Richard Massey

Aims. We investigate the contribution of shot-noise and sample variance to uncertainties in the cosmological parameter constraints inferred from cluster number counts, in the context of the Euclid survey. ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2021

A Covariance Formula For Topological Events Of Smooth Gaussian Fields

Alejandro Rivera

We derive a covariance formula for the class of 'topological events' of smooth Gaussian fields on manifolds; these are events that depend only on the topology of the level sets of the field, for example, (i) crossing events for level or excursion sets, (ii ...

INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS2020

Fast ion transport phenomena in turbulent toroidal plasmas

Fabian Manke

In the field of plasma physics, suprathermal ions are encountered e.g. in astrophysical jets, the solar wind, as well as fusion plasmas, where they originate from neutral beam injection or fusion reactions. One aspect of shared interest with astrophysical ...

EPFL2020

Reparameterizing Discontinuous Integrands for Differentiable Rendering

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Guillaume Rémi Bruno Loubet

Differentiable rendering has recently opened the door to a number of challenging inverse problems involving photorealistic images, such as computational material design and scattering-aware reconstruction of geometry and materials from photographs. Differe ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Demonstration of Multiple Kerr-Frequency-Comb Generation Using Different Lines from Another Kerr Comb Located up to a 50 km Distance

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi, Lin Zhang, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate multiple Kerr-frequency-comb generation using different lines from another Kerr comb located up to a 50 km distance. The master and generated slave combs are mutually coherent and have a small variance of frequency error. ...

IEEE2018

Planck 2013 results. VII. HFI time response and beams

Julien Lesgourgues, Fabio Finelli

This paper characterizes the effective beams, the effective beam window functions and the associated errors for the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) detectors. The effective beam is the angular response including the effect of the optics, detectors, ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Gait disturbances as specific predictive markers of the first fall onset in elderly people: a two-year prospective observational study

Jean-Baptiste Mignardot

Falls are common in the elderly, and potentially result in injury and disability. Thus, preventing falls as soon as possible in older adults is a public health priority, yet there is no specific marker that is predictive of the first fall onset. We hypothe ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2014

Light-cone anisotropy in the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization

Yves Revaz

Using a suite of detailed numerical simulations, we estimate the level of anisotropy generated by the time evolution along the light cone of the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization. Our simulations include the physics necessary to model the signal ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Wavelet-variance-based estimation for composite stochastic processes

Jan Skaloud, Stéphane Guerrier, Yannick Stebler

This article presents a new estimation method for the parameters of a time series model. We consider here composite Gaussian processes that are the sum of independent Gaussian processes which, in turn, explain an important aspect of the time series, as is ...

Amer Statistical Assoc2013

Advantages of Variance Stabilization

Stephan Morgenthaler, Robert Staudte

Variance stabilization is a simple device for normalizing a statistic. Even though its large sample properties are similar to those of studentizing, many simulation studies of confidence interval procedures show that variance stabilization works better for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

On the spatial partitioning of urban transportation networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Yuxuan Ji

It has been recently shown that a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) linking space-mean network flow, density and speed exists in the urban transportation networks under some conditions. An MFD is further well defined if the network is homogeneous with ...

Elsevier2012

Investigation of the In composition in InGaN/GaN quantum wells deposited by MOVPE and/or MBE with emission from violet to green

Nicolas Grandjean, Denis Martin, Nils Asmus Kristian Kaufmann

Transmission electron microscopy and photoluminescence investigations have been carried out on a series of quantum wells grown by molecular beam epitaxy and metal organic vapour phase epitaxy. In both cases, the emission wavelength and the peak width agree ...

2011

Variance Stabilizing the Difference of Two Binomial Proportions

Stephan Morgenthaler, Robert Staudte

The article studies estimation of Delta = p(1) - p(2), the difference of two proportions p(1) and p(2), based on two independent Binomial experiments of size n(1) and n(2). The usual estimator, the difference between the two sample proportions, is variance ...

American Statistical Association2010

Orientation of body segments in ski jumps using wearable sensors: Analysis of relevant parameters during stable flight phase

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Julien Chardonnens

Biomechanics analysis of the ski jump is highly required. Some parameters and their interrelations have been reported in previous research studies limited to few athletes. The generalization of these parameters to athletes of various levels and under train ...

2010

Multi-signal extension of adaptive frequency tracking algorithms

Jean-Marc Vesin, Yann Prudat

Adaptive tracking of sinusoidal signal components with time-varying amplitudes and frequencies presents a great interest in many engineering applications. In many cases, the frequency components of interest are present in more than one signal. So we propos ...

2009

Resamping variance estimation in surveys with missing data

Anthony Christopher Davison, Sylvain Sardy

We discuss variance estimation by resampling in surveys in which data are missing. We derive a formula for jackknife linearization in the case of calibrated estimation with deterministic regression imputation, and compare the resulting variance estimates w ...

2007