A Diffusion Equation for the Density of the Ratio of Two Jointly Distributed Gaussian Variables and the Exponential Analysis Problem

  • Authors:
  • Piero Barone

  • Affiliations:
  • p.barone@iac.cnr.it and piero.barone@gmail.com

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

It is shown that the density of the ratio of two random variables with the same variance and joint Gaussian density satisfies a nonstationary diffusion equation. Implications of this result for adaptive kernel density estimation of the condensed density of the generalized eigenvalues of a random matrix pencil useful for solving the exponential analysis problem are discussed.