A Note on Statistical Distances for Discrete Log-Concave Measures

2023/09/06 by Arnaud Marsiglietti, Marsiglietti, Arnaud, Puja Pandey +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Statistical Methods and Models #FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.03197

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Abstract

In this note we explore how standard statistical distances are equivalent for discrete log-concave distributions. Distances include total variation distance, Wasserstein distance, and f-divergences.

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