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We prove a multivariate version of Hoeffding's inequality about the distribution of homogeneous polynomials of Rademacher functions. The proof is based on such an estimate about the moments of homogeneous polynomials of Rademacher functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Major

We quantify the elementary Borel-Cantelli Lemma by higher moments of the overlap count statistic in terms of the weighted summability of the probabilities. Applications include mean deviation frequencies in the Strong Law and the Law of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Luisa F. Estrada , Michael A. Högele

We establish the rate of convergence in the strong law of large numbers of discrete Fourier Transform of the identically distributed random variables with finite moment of order p, where 1<p<2.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Na Zhang

We introduce a novel method for obtaining a wide variety of moments of any random variable with a well-defined moment-generating function (MGF). We derive new expressions for fractional moments and fractional absolute moments, both central…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-10-21 Peter Reinhard Hansen , Chen Tong

We propose a new method to improve the convergence speed of the Robbins-Monro algorithm by introducing prior information about the target point into the Robbins-Monro iteration. We achieve the incorporation of prior information without the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Siwei Liu , Ke Ma , Stephan M. Goetz

We obtain for the Kempner series (i.e. harmonic series where certain digits are excluded from all denominators, for example the digit 9 in base 10) new representations as geometrically convergent series. The coefficients for these…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jean-François Burnol

We extend a general result showing that the asymptotic behavior of high moments, factorial or standard, of random variables, determines the asymptotically normality, from the one dimensional to the multidimensional setting. This approach…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Pawel HItczenko , Nick Wormald

This paper introduces a version of decoupling and randomization to establish concentration inequalities for double-indexed permutation statistics. The results yield, among other applications, a new combinatorial Hanson-Wright inequality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingxuan Zou , Jingfan Xu , Peng Ding , Fang Han

We establish a central limit theorem of $(1/\sqrt{h_p})\sum_{X< n \leq X+h_p}\big(\tfrac{n}{p}\big)$ for almost all the primes $p$, with $X$ uniformly random in $[g(p)]$, $g(p)$ an arbitrary divergent function growing slower than any power…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Paweł Nosal

We obtain optimal moment bounds for Birkhoff sums, and optimal concentration inequalities, for a large class of slowly mixing dynamical systems, including those that admit anomalous diffusion in the form of a stable law or a central limit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Sébastien Gouëzel , Ian Melbourne

Given two random variables taking values in a bounded interval, we study whether one dominates the other in higher-order stochastic dominance depends on the reference interval in the model setting. We obtain two results. First, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Ruodu Wang , Qinyu Wu

This work provides data-processing and majorization inequalities for $f$-divergences, and it considers some of their applications to coding problems. This work also provides tight bounds on the R\'{e}nyi entropy of a function of a discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Igal Sason

A unifying and generalizing approach to representations of the positive-part and absolute moments $\mathsf{E} X_+^p$ and $\mathsf{E}|X|^p$ of a random variable $X$ for real $p$ in terms of the characteristic function (c.f.) of $X$, as well…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Iosif Pinelis

We prove $L^p$-mass concentration properties of Laplace eigenfunctions away from their nodal sets, extending a recent result in \cite{GM3} to all dimensions, and giving a slight refinement of a result in \cite{JN}. As a consequence, we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Mayukh Mukherjee

This paper presents compact notations for concentration inequalities and convenient results to streamline probabilistic analysis. The new expressions describe the typical sizes and tails of random variables, allowing for simple operations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Kaizheng Wang

We explore the question whether Lipschitz functions of random variables under various forms of negative correlation satisfy concentration bounds similar to McDiarmid's inequality for independent random variables. We prove such a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Kevin Garbe , Jan Vondrak

Many inference problems, such as sequential decision problems like A/B testing, adaptive sampling schemes like bandit selection, are often online in nature. The fundamental problem for online inference is to provide a sequence of confidence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla , Qinqing Zheng

We prove a concentration inequality which asserts that, under some mild regularity conditions, every random variable defined on the product of sufficiently many probability spaces exhibits pseudorandom behavior.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Pandelis Dodos , Vassilis Kanellopoulos , Konstantinos Tyros

We prove limit theorems for sums of randomly chosen random variables conditioned on the summands. We consider several versions of the corner growth setting, including specific cases of dependence amongst the summands and summands with heavy…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-01 David Grzybowski

It is well known that the entropy $H(X)$ of a discrete random variable $X$ is always greater than or equal to the entropy $H(f(X))$ of a function $f$ of $X$, with equality if and only if $f$ is one-to-one. In this paper, we give tight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Ferdinando Cicalese , Luisa Gargano , Ugo Vaccaro