Relaxation of monotone coupling conditions: Poisson approximation and beyond

DOI10.1017/jpr.2018.48zbMath1402.62022arXiv1706.04064WikidataQ60522075 ScholiaQ60522075MaRDI QIDQ4555288

Oliver Johnson, Fraser Daly

Publication date: 19 November 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04064

zbMATH Keywords

Poincaré inequality; stochastic ordering; Poisson approximation; normal approximation; monotone coupling; size biasing; (negative) association

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

62E10: Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

Related Items

Asymptotics of multivariate contingency tables with fixed marginals, Poisson approximation with applications to stochastic geometry, Concentration inequalities from monotone couplings for graphs, walks, trees and branching processes

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Bounded size bias coupling: a gamma function bound, and universal Dickman-function behavior
• Convex entropy decay via the Bochner-Bakry-Emery approach
• Compound Poisson approximation with association or negative association via Stein's method
• On an inequality of Chernoff
• A discrete log-Sobolev inequality under a Bakry-Émery type condition
• Size biased couplings and the spectral gap for random regular graphs
• Negative association of random variables, with applications
• A bound for the distribution of the sum of discrete associated or negatively associated random variables.
• Bounds on the Poincaré constant under negative dependence
• Non-asymptotic distributional bounds for the Dickman approximation of the running time of the Quickselect algorithm
• Stein's Method and Stochastic Orderings
• A Berry-Esseen bound for the lightbulb process
• Normal Approximation by Stein’s Method
• Symmetric sampling procedures, general epidemic processes and their threshold limit theorems
• Poisson approximation for some epidemic models
• Association of Random Variables, with Applications