Simple bounds for the convergence of empirical and occupation measures in 1-Wasserstein distance

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DOI10.1214/EJP.V16-958zbMATH Open1254.60014arXiv1103.3188MaRDI QIDQ428581FDOQ428581

Emmanuel Boissard

Publication date: 22 June 2012

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the problem of non-asymptotic deviations between a reference measure and its empirical version, in the 1-Wasserstein metric, under the standing assumption that the measure satisfies a transport-entropy inequality. We extend some results of F. Bolley, A. Guillin and C. Villani with simple proofs. Our methods are based on concentration inequalities and extend to the general setting of measures on a Polish space. Deviation bounds for the occupation measure of a Markov chain are also given, under the assumption that the chain is contractive on the space of Lipschitz functions. Throughout the text, several examples are worked out, including the cases of Gaussian measures on separable Banach spaces, and laws of diffusion processes.


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