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On the Impossibility of Learning the Missing Mass

This paper shows that one cannot learn the probability of rare events without imposing further structural assumptions. The event of interest is that of obtaining an outcome outside the coverage of an i.i.d. sample from a discrete distribution. The probability of this event is referred to as the “mis...

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Autores principales: Mossel, Elchanan, Ohannessian, Mesrob I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33266744
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21010028