StochastiqueLe mot stochastique est synonyme d', en référence au hasard et s’oppose par définition au déterminisme. Stochastique est un terme d'origine grecque qui signifie « basé sur la conjecture ». En français, il est couramment utilisé pour décrire des phénomènes aléatoires ou imprévisibles. Dans les mathématiques et la statistique, « stochastique » fait référence à des processus qui sont déterminés par des séquences de mouvements aléatoires. Cela inclut tout ce qui est aléatoire ou imprévisible en fonction des informations actuellement disponibles.
Discrete wavelet transformIn numerical analysis and functional analysis, a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is any wavelet transform for which the wavelets are discretely sampled. As with other wavelet transforms, a key advantage it has over Fourier transforms is temporal resolution: it captures both frequency and location information (location in time). Haar wavelet The first DWT was invented by Hungarian mathematician Alfréd Haar. For an input represented by a list of numbers, the Haar wavelet transform may be considered to pair up input values, storing the difference and passing the sum.
Sparse approximationSparse approximation (also known as sparse representation) theory deals with sparse solutions for systems of linear equations. Techniques for finding these solutions and exploiting them in applications have found wide use in , signal processing, machine learning, medical imaging, and more. Consider a linear system of equations , where is an underdetermined matrix and . The matrix (typically assumed to be full-rank) is referred to as the dictionary, and is a signal of interest.
Sparse dictionary learningSparse dictionary learning (also known as sparse coding or SDL) is a representation learning method which aims at finding a sparse representation of the input data in the form of a linear combination of basic elements as well as those basic elements themselves. These elements are called atoms and they compose a dictionary. Atoms in the dictionary are not required to be orthogonal, and they may be an over-complete spanning set. This problem setup also allows the dimensionality of the signals being represented to be higher than the one of the signals being observed.
SmoothnessIn mathematical analysis, the smoothness of a function is a property measured by the number of continuous derivatives it has over some domain, called differentiability class. At the very minimum, a function could be considered smooth if it is differentiable everywhere (hence continuous). At the other end, it might also possess derivatives of all orders in its domain, in which case it is said to be infinitely differentiable and referred to as a C-infinity function (or function).
Lévy flightA Lévy flight is a random walk in which the step-lengths have a stable distribution, a probability distribution that is heavy-tailed. When defined as a walk in a space of dimension greater than one, the steps made are in isotropic random directions. Later researchers have extended the use of the term "Lévy flight" to also include cases where the random walk takes place on a discrete grid rather than on a continuous space. The term "Lévy flight" was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot, who used this for one specific definition of the distribution of step sizes.
Stable count distributionIn probability theory, the stable count distribution is the conjugate prior of a one-sided stable distribution. This distribution was discovered by Stephen Lihn (Chinese: 藺鴻圖) in his 2017 study of daily distributions of the S&P 500 and the VIX. The stable distribution family is also sometimes referred to as the Lévy alpha-stable distribution, after Paul Lévy, the first mathematician to have studied it. Of the three parameters defining the distribution, the stability parameter is most important.
Interpolation numériqueEn analyse numérique (et dans son application algorithmique discrète pour le calcul numérique), l'interpolation est une opération mathématique permettant de remplacer une courbe ou une fonction par une autre courbe (ou fonction) plus simple, mais qui coïncide avec la première en un nombre fini de points (ou de valeurs) donnés au départ. Suivant le type d'interpolation, outre le fait de coïncider en un nombre fini de points ou de valeurs, il peut aussi être demandé à la courbe ou à la fonction construite de vérifier des propriétés supplémentaires.
Intérêts composésUn capital est placé à intérêts composés lorsque les intérêts de chaque période sont incorporés au capital pour l'augmenter progressivement et porter intérêts à leur tour. C'est une notion antagoniste à celle d'intérêts simples, où les intérêts ne sont pas réinvestis pour devenir à leur tour porteurs d'intérêts. Pour calculer des intérêts composés annuellement, il faut utiliser une suite géométrique, dont la formule est : où est la valeur finale, la valeur initiale, le taux d'intérêt sur une période, et le nombre de périodes (d'années, semestres, trimestres, etc.
Reaction progress kinetic analysisIn chemistry, reaction progress kinetic analysis (RPKA) is a subset of a broad range of kinetic techniques utilized to determine the rate laws of chemical reactions and to aid in elucidation of reaction mechanisms. While the concepts guiding reaction progress kinetic analysis are not new, the process was formalized by Professor Donna Blackmond (currently at Scripps Research Institute) in the late 1990s and has since seen increasingly widespread use.
