Mackenzie Simper

collaborators

3 papers

math.DS2024

Most probable escape paths in perturbed gradient systems

Katherine Slyman, Mackenzie Simper, John A. Gemmer +1

Stochastic systems are used to model a variety of phenomena in which noise plays an essential role. In these models, one potential goal is to determine if noise can induce transiti…

math.ST2022

Random Transpositions on Contingency Tables

Mackenzie Simper

Contingency tables are useful objects in statistics for representing 2-way data. With fixed row and column sums, and a total of $n$ entries, contingency tables correspond to parabo…

math.PR2022

Double Coset Markov Chains

Persi Diaconis, Arun Ram, Mackenzie Simper

Let $G$ be a finite group. Let $H, K$ be subgroups of $G$ and $H \ G / K$ the double coset space. Let $Q$ be a probability on $G$ which is constant on conjugacy classes ($…