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P. Y. Lai

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Theory of dipolaron solutions

A fundamental task of statistical physics is to predict the system's statistical properties and compare them with observable data. We formulate the theory of dipolaron solutions and analyze the screening effects for permanent and field-induced dipolarons. The mathematical treatment of the collective behaviour and microscopical morphology of dipolaron solutions are discussed. The presented computations show that the electric field shielding of dipolarons in dielectric nanosolutions is quite different from that of counterionic nano-complexes of Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytes. The limiting case of screening length $λ=0$ in dipolaron solutions corresponds to Coulomb's law for the potential and field of uniformly charged sphere.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Improving Coverage Accuracy of Block Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

The block bootstrap confidence interval based on dependent data can outperform the computationally more convenient normal approximation only with non-trivial Studentization which, in the case of complicated statistics, calls for highly specialist treatment. We propose two different approaches to improving the accuracy of the block bootstrap confidence interval under very general conditions. The first calibrates the coverage level by iterating the block bootstrap. The second calculates Studentizing factors directly from block bootstrap series and requires no non-trivial analytic treatment. Both approaches involve two nested levels of block bootstrap resampling and yield high-order accuracy with simple tuning of block lengths at the two resampling levels. A simulation study is reported to provide empirical support for our theory.

stat.ME