An overview of the pathway idea and its applications in statistical and physical sciences

DOI10.3390/AXIOMS4040530zbMATH Open1369.62031arXiv1307.7931OpenAlexW2203169819MaRDI QIDQ2400539FDOQ2400539

Authors: Nicy Sebastian, Seema S. Nair, Dhannya P. Joseph 

Publication date: 29 August 2017

Published in: Axioms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Pathway idea is a switching mechanism by which one can go from one functional form to another, and to yet another. It is shown that through a parameter $alpha$, called the pathway parameter, one can connect generalized type-1 beta family of densities, generalized type-2 beta family of densities, and generalized gamma family of densities, in the scalar as well as the matrix cases, also in the real and complex domains. It is shown that when the model is applied to physical situations then the current hot topics of Tsallis statistics and superstatistics in statistical mechanics become special cases of the pathway model, and the model is capable of capturing many stable situations as well as the unstable or chaotic neighborhoods of the stable situations and transitional stages. The pathway model is shown to be connected to generalized information measures or entropies, power law, likelihood ratio criterion or $lambda-$criterion in multivariate statistical analysis, generalized Dirichlet densities, fractional calculus, Mittag-Leffler stochastic process, Kr"{a}tzel integral in applied analysis, and many other topics in different disciplines. The pathway model enables one to extend the current results on quadratic and bilinear forms, when the samples come from Gaussian populations, to wider classes of populations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7931

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zbMATH Keywords

quadratic formspathway model\(H\)-functionTsallis statisticsentropy measuregeneralized gammasuperstatisticsbeta family\(\lambda\)-criterionDirichlet densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

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