The missing mass problem

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2012.02.014MaRDI QIDQ426696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Berend, Aryeh Kontorovich

Publication date 11 June 2012

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2328

zbMATH Keywords

samplingprobability estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

Abstract: We give tight lower and upper bounds on the expected missing mass for distributions over finite and countably infinite spaces. An essential characterization of the extremal distributions is given. We also provide an extension to totally bounded metric spaces that may be of independent interest.

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