3 papers
cs.IT2026
A Structural Characterization of Entropy Functionals
Daniel Lazarev
Entropy functionals and their associated divergences underlie many statistical methods, including maximum entropy inference, minimum divergence estimation, and goodness-of-fit test…
math.DG2025
Stokes' theorem as an entropy-extremizing duality
Daniel Lazarev
Given a manifold , we consider all codimension-1 submanifolds of that satisfy the generalized Stokes' theorem and show that $\partia…
stat.AP2023
Spatiotemporal risk prediction for infectious disease spread and mortality
Catherine Li, Daniel Lazarev
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, various studies have focused on predicting the trajectory and risk factors of the virus and its variants. Building on previous work that…