Aryeh Kontorovich
Senior Academic
The missing mass problem
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.
| Publication language | English |
| Pages | 1102-1110 |
| Journal | Statistics and Probability Letters |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 01.06.2012 |
Keywords
Missing mass
Probability estimate
Sampling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
