Following An infinite dimensional Schur-Horn theorem and majorization theory [28], this paper further studies majorization for infinite sequences. It extends to the infinite case classical results on ...

Aldous and Shepp recently proved that the Erlang distribution of a given order is the least variable phase-type distribution of that order, in the sense of minimizing the coefficient of variation.

Mathematics Colloquium: Stochastic Variance-Reduced Majorization-Minimization Algorithms, Duy Nhat Phan 4/26 Submissions 04/20/2023 By Joris Roos The Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Kennedy ...