On the concentration of the missing mass

DOI10.1214/ECP.V18-2359zbMATH Open1329.60050arXiv1210.3248MaRDI QIDQ742962FDOQ742962

Authors: Daniel Berend, Aryeh Kontorovich 

Publication date: 22 September 2014

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

Abstract: A random variable is sampled from a discrete distribution. The missing mass is the probability of the set of points not observed in the sample. We sharpen and simplify McAllester and Ortiz's results (JMLR, 2003) bounding the probability of large deviations of the missing mass. Along the way, we refine and rigorously prove a fundamental inequality of Kearns and Saul (UAI, 1998).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3248

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zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsconcentrationHoeffding inequalitymissing mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Systems of functional equations and inequalities (39B72)

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