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FOCS
1990
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1990
IEEE
We present three alternative simple constructions of small probability spaces on n bits for which any k bits are almost independent. The number of bits used to specify a point in ...
STOC
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
We describe a simple randomized construction for generating pairs of hash functions h1, h2 from a universe U to ranges V = [m] = {0, 1, . . . , m - 1} and W = [m] so that for ever...
JMLR
2010
13 years 3 days ago
2010
Three simple and explicit procedures for testing the independence of two multi-dimensional random variables are described. Two of the associated test statistics (L1, log-likelihoo...
APPROX
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
We give a simple combinatorial proof of the Chernoff-Hoeffding concentration bound [Che52, Hoe63], which says that the sum of independent {0, 1}-valued random variables is highly ...
IJBC
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
In 1873 Francis Galton had constructed a simple mechanical device where a ball is dropped vertically through a harrow of pins that deflect the ball sideways as it falls. Galton c...