A Level-set Hit-and-run Sampler for Quasi-Concave Distributions Shane T. Jensen and Dean P. Foster Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Abstract

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• Monte Carlo methods
• Markov chain Monte Carlo
• Non-uniform random numbers
• Probability distributions
• Computational statistics
• Gibbs sampling
• Rejection sampling
• MetropolisHastings algorithm
• Slice sampling
• Bayesian network
• Quasiconvex function
• Normal distribution

Estimating Diffusion Network Structures A. Proof of Lemma 9 Lemma 9 Given log-concave survival functions and concave hazard functions in the parameter(s) of the pairwise transmission likelihoods, then, a sufficient cond

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Approximation by log-concave distributions, with applications to regression

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UCDP GED Conflict Polygons Dataset Codebook Version 1.1 In force as of 15 March 2011

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• Polygons
• Aftermath of war
• Uppsala Conflict Data Program
• Uppsala University
• Space
• Convex polygon
• Star polygon
• Concave polygon

Theoretical properties of the log-concave maximum likelihood estiamtor of a multidimensional density Richard Samworth (joint work with Madeleine Cule) Shape-constrained density estimation in general, and log-concave dens

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arXiv:0903.2323v2 [math.PR] 27 AugQuantitative estimates of the convergence of the empirical covariance matrix in Log-concave Ensembles Radoslaw Adamczak1

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Rafal Latala Probabilistic properties of log-concave vectors - more questions than answers I plan to discuss the following (possible overlaps with Bo’az course should be fixed later): 1. generic chaining (Talagrand) te

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arXiv:1103.0401v1 [math.PR] 2 MarGeometry of log-concave Ensembles of random matrices and approximate reconstruction∗ Radoslaw ADAMCZAK† Alexander E. LITVAK

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Fast Rates for Exp-concave Empirical Risk Minimization Kfir Y. Levy Technion Haifa 32000, Israel

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Marchenko-Pastur distribution for random vectors with log-concave law Alain Pajor University Paris-Est Joint work with Leonid Pastur

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