Matching marginals and sums
Probability
2019-11-19 v1
Abstract
For a given set of random variables we seek as large a family as possible of random variables such that the marginal laws and the laws of the sums match: and . Under the assumption that are independent and belong to any of the Meixner classes, we give a full characterisation of the random variables and propose a practical construction by means of a finite mean square expansion. When are identically distributed but not necessarily independent, using a symmetry-balancing approach we provide a universal construction with sufficient symmetry to satisfy the more stringent requirement that, for any symmetric function , .
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@article{arxiv.1911.07209,
title = {Matching marginals and sums},
author = {Robert Griffiths and Kais Hamza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07209},
year = {2019}
}
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