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TR10-179 | 18th November 2010
Gregory Valiant, Paul Valiant

A CLT and tight lower bounds for estimating entropy

Revisions: 1

We prove two new multivariate central limit theorems; the first relates the sum of independent distributions to the multivariate Gaussian of corresponding mean and covariance, under the earthmover distance matric (also known as the Wasserstein metric). We leverage this central limit theorem to prove a stronger but more specific central ... more >>>


TR10-180 | 18th November 2010
Gregory Valiant, Paul Valiant

Estimating the unseen: A sublinear-sample canonical estimator of distributions

We introduce a new approach to characterizing the unobserved portion of a distribution, which provides sublinear-sample additive estimators for a class of properties that includes entropy and distribution support size. Together with the lower bounds proven in the companion paper [29], this settles the longstanding question of the sample complexities ... more >>>




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