The missing mass problem

Daniel Berend; Aryeh Kontorovich

doi:10.1016/j.spl.2012.02.014

The missing mass problem

Daniel Berend, Aryeh Kontorovich

Department of Computer Science

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

We give tight lower and upper bounds on the expected missing mass for distributions over finite and countably infinite spaces. An essential characterization of the extremal distributions is given. We also provide an extension to totally bounded metric spaces that may be of independent interest.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	1102-1110
Number of pages	9
Journal	Statistics and Probability Letters
Volume	82
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2012.02.014
State	Published - 1 Jun 2012

Keywords

Missing mass
Probability estimate
Sampling

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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