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Efficient Generation of Random Variates from a Copula Distribution
I have a 7-asset portfolio for which I want to simulate daily log-deltas using a Student T copula. The marginal distributions are all either Stable or TsallisQGaussian. Using NMaximize, I have ...
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Just what kind of transformations can TransformedDistribution handle?
Why does the following command return an empty plot?
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Persistence length of a polymer chain
I'm trying to calculate the persistence length (Lp) of a polymer chain using Mathematica. The first and simplest method is to compare the EuclideanDistance between ...
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Ηow to create an interpolated CDF from its samples?
I want to use a distribution I have only aggregate statistics on, namely its CDF sampled at certain points. I would like to keep it "nonparametric" (remain noncommittal on the parametric form), but I ...
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How do I get the critical value in statistical hypothesis testing?
What I am trying to do is to get the value of $\chi^2$ for given probability (let us say $\alpha$=0.01) and degrees of freedom (for example df=3).
How do I get that?
Inverse...Distribution functions ...
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How do I display a histogram with normalized counts?
I have some data corresponding to real number distances: {200.04053, 200.232123, 156.3242,...}, and I would like to bin these values and display them as a histogram ...
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Using an inequality to select elements from a list and then plotting the results
Okay, here is the information that I have.
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Total Variation Distance of probability matrix
How can I calculate the Total Variation Distance of a transition Matrix? is there any built in function? I've searched all documentation and haven;t found anything.
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Is it possible to marginalize one or several parameters obtained from fitting procedure?
Statistical model analysis package has a few fitting functions. Their arguments are data points, fitting model and parameters in the fit. The result is a set of best values for parameters, which ...
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Filtering Lists in Mathematica [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Select/Delete with Sublist elements?
I need help in filtering long lists of x,y coordinates.Lets use the following list as an ...
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Expectation over a list with nested-mapped expressions
I need expected values of a list where the random variable to take expectations over should be an input into expressions defined earlier. I suspect Set[] and SetDelayed[] tripped me. (Or Map and ...
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Generating partitions of a set [duplicate]
Is it possible to get Mathematica to generate all possible partitions of a set of objects?
(..or equivalently if it can be made to do the cumulant expansion or at least the Gaussian special case of ...
