Measure Concentration for Compound Poisson Distributions

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Main Authors: Kontoyiannis, I., Madiman, M.
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Published: 2005
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author Kontoyiannis, I.
Madiman, M.
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Madiman, M.
contents We give a simple development of the concentration properties of compound Poisson measures on the nonnegative integers. A new modification of the Herbst argument is applied to an appropriate modified logarithmic-Sobolev inequality to derive new concentration bounds. When the measure of interest does not have finite exponential moments, these bounds exhibit optimal polynomial decay. Simple new proofs are also given for earlier results of Houdr{é} (2002) and Wu (2000).
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spellingShingle Measure Concentration for Compound Poisson Distributions
Kontoyiannis, I.
Madiman, M.
Probability
60E07, 60E15, 46N30, 39B62
We give a simple development of the concentration properties of compound Poisson measures on the nonnegative integers. A new modification of the Herbst argument is applied to an appropriate modified logarithmic-Sobolev inequality to derive new concentration bounds. When the measure of interest does not have finite exponential moments, these bounds exhibit optimal polynomial decay. Simple new proofs are also given for earlier results of Houdr{é} (2002) and Wu (2000).
title Measure Concentration for Compound Poisson Distributions
topic Probability
60E07, 60E15, 46N30, 39B62
url https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506435