• DOI:10.1109/TIT.2017.2733537
Corpus ID: 47575509

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Functionals of Discrete Distributions

@article{Jiao2017MaximumLE,
  title={Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Functionals of Discrete Distributions},
  author={J. Jiao and K. Venkat and Y. Han and T. Weissman},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
  year={2017},
  volume={63},
  pages={6774-6798}
}

J. Jiao, K. Venkat, +1 author T. Weissman

Published 2017

Mathematics, Computer Science

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

We consider the problem of estimating functionals of discrete distributions, and focus on a tight (up to universal multiplicative constants for each specific functional) nonasymptotic analysis of the worst case squared error risk of widely used estimators. We apply concentration inequalities to analyze the random fluctuation of these estimators around their expectations and the theory of approximation using positive linear operators to analyze the deviation of their expectations from the true… CONTINUE READING

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