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Bounded size biased couplings, log concave distributions and concentration of measure for occupancy models

Probability 2017-05-25 v3 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Threshold-type counts based on multivariate occupancy models with log concave marginals admit bounded size biased couplings under weak conditions, leading to new concentration of measure results for random graphs, germ-grain models in stochastic geometry, multinomial allocation models and multivariate hypergeometric sampling. The work generalizes and improves upon previous results in a number of directions.

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@article{arxiv.1402.6769,
  title  = {Bounded size biased couplings, log concave distributions and concentration of measure for occupancy models},
  author = {Jay Bartroff and Larry Goldstein and Ümit Işlak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.6769},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

35 pages. Version 2 is the result of a major revision, including corrections and significant clarifications in particular as regards Lemmas 2.6 and 2.7, and the introduction and use of Property (B,*) in Definition 2.2. Version 3 added some references and removed Theorem 1.1