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Stochastic Assessment of Acceleration Probability Density Function for Parametric Rolling Using Moment Method

Yuuki Maruyama, Atsuo Maki, Leo Dostal, Naoya Umeda

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math.DS
Journal tier
Specialist/Solid
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Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM

Audit review

The paper correctly states the linearity-based moment decompositions for roll angular acceleration and cargo lateral acceleration and proposes two parametric PDF families, but it omits necessary hypotheses (e.g., symmetry conditions) when dropping cross-terms in E[K1^2], gives no normalization constants or existence/uniqueness proofs for the proposed PDFs, and does not derive first-order conditions for the moment-matching objective. The model solution supplies these missing pieces (moment expansions including the cross-terms, normalizers for both families, dominated-convergence justifications, covariance-form gradient conditions, and exact variance for the logistic case). Aside from a minor, easily corrected circularity in one sub-step of the even-quartic parameterization, the model solution is sound.

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\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid

\textbf{Justification:}

The manuscript presents a useful methodology for estimating PDFs of roll-related accelerations from low-order moments, with supportive numerical evidence. However, several analytical steps are either omitted or insufficiently justified, including conditions for dropping cross-terms in moment expansions, normalization of proposed PDFs, and gradient-based optimality conditions for the stated objective. Addressing these points will substantially enhance rigor and reproducibility.