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Sequential data collection has emerged as a widely adopted technique for enhancing the efficiency of data gathering processes. Despite its advantages, such data collection mechanism often introduces complexities to the statistical inference…

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We study how large an $\ell^2$ ellipsoid is by introducing type-$\tau$ integrals that capture the average decay of its semi-axes. These integrals turn out to be closely related to standard complexity measures: we show that the metric…

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