The missing mass problem

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2012.02.014zbMATH Open1239.62012arXiv1111.2328OpenAlexW2963224888MaRDI QIDQ426696FDOQ426696

Authors: Daniel Berend, Aryeh Kontorovich 

Publication date: 11 June 2012

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

samplingprobability estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• MathOverflow

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