The lower tail: Poisson approximation revisited
The lower tail: Poisson approximation revisited
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下尾部:重新审视泊松近似
DOI:
10.1002/rsa.20590
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
1
通讯作者:
L. Warnke
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作者:
S. Janson;L. Warnke
The well‐known “Janson's inequality” gives Poisson‐like upper bounds for the lower tail probability ℙ(X ⩽ (1−ε)EX) when X is the sum of dependent indicator random variables of a special form. We show that, for large deviations, this inequality is optimal whenever X is approximately Poisson, i.e., when the dependencies are weak. We also present correlation‐based approaches that, in certain symmetric applications, yield related conclusions when X is no longer close to Poisson. As an illustration we, e.g., consider subgraph counts in random graphs, and obtain new lower tail estimates, extending earlier work (for the special case ε=1 ) of Janson, Łuczak and Ruciński. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 48, 219–246, 2016