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most citedOn Bessel's Correction: Unbiased Sample Variance, the Bariance, and a Novel Runtime-Optimized Estimator

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stat.CO2026

or Not : A Tale of Three Algorithms for Streaming: Covariance Estimation after Welford and Chan-Golub-LeVeque

Felix Reichel

We place three algorithms for computing the unbiased sample covariance matrix in streaming and distributed settings on a common algebraic, numerical, and statistical foundation. Th…

stat.CO2025

High-Performance Variance-Covariance Matrix Construction Using an Uncentered Gram Formulation

Felix Reichel

Reichel (2025) defined the bariance as a pairwise-difference measure that can be rewritten in linear time using only scalar sums. We extend this idea to the covariance matrix by sh…

econ.GN2025

Price Pass-Through of Austria's Single-Use Plastics Producer Charges: Evidence from Retail Offer Spells

Felix Reichel

Single use plastics (SUPs) impose substantial environmental costs. Following Directive (EU) 2019/904, Austria introduced producer charges and mandatory participation in collection…

econ.GN2025

Two-Stage Asymmetric Tullock Contests with Cost Shifters and Endogenous Continuation Decision

Felix Reichel

This paper introduces a contest-theoretic simplified model of triathlon as a sequential two-stage game. In Stage 1 (post-swim), participants decide whether to continue or withdraw…

stat.ME2025

Statistically Significant Linear Regression Coefficients Solely Driven By Outliers In Finite-sample Inference

Felix Reichel

In this paper, we investigate the impact of outliers on the statistical significance of coefficients in linear regression. We demonstrate, through numerical simulation using R, tha…

econ.GN2025

Strategic Effort and Non-Linear Positional Bandwagon Drafting Benefits in Multi-Stage Competitive Games: Evidence from Triathlon

Felix Reichel

This paper examines strategic effort and positioning choices in finite multistage games These choices can generate positional bandwagon drafting benefits through externalities when…

stat.ME2025★ 1 cited

On Bessel's Correction: Unbiased Sample Variance, the Bariance, and a Novel Runtime-Optimized Estimator

Felix Reichel

Bessel's correction adjusts the denominator in the sample variance formula from n to n-1 to ensure an unbiased estimator of the population variance. This paper provides rigorous al…

econ.GN2025

Using Covid-19 Response Policy to Estimate Open Water Swim Drafting Effects in Triathlon

Felix Reichel

This study investigates the causal effects of open-water swim drafting by leveraging a natural experiment induced by staggered race starts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before 2020…

econ.EM2024

Spatial Competition on Psychological Pricing Strategies -- Preliminary Evidence from an Online Marketplace

Magdalena Schindl, Felix Reichel

This paper investigates whether spatial proximity shapes psychological-pricing choices on Austria's C2C marketplace willhaben. Two web-scraped snapshots of 826 Woom Bike listings -…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Extreme compression of sentence-transformer ranker models: faster inference, longer battery life, and less storage on edge devices

Amit Chaulwar, Lukas Malik, Maciej Krajewski +4

Modern search systems use several large ranker models with transformer architectures. These models require large computational resources and are not suitable for usage on devices w…