Stochastic Analysis of Collision Estimator

06/12/2020
by   Maciej Skorski, et al.
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We prove a strong concentration result about the collision estimator, which arises from birthday paradox. Previous works (property testing, entropy estimation) have focused on its variance properties; we use elegant techniques to obtain bounds for higher moments.

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