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The Second Moment Phenomenon for Monochromatic Subgraphs
Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya, Somabha Mukherjee, Sumit Mukherjee
What is the chance that among a group of friends, there are friends all of whom have the same birthday? This is the celebrated birthday problem which can be formulated as t…
Statistical Inference based on Bridge Divergences
Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Somabha Mukherjee, Ayanendranath Basu
M-estimators offer simple robust alternatives to the maximum likelihood estimator. Much of the robustness literature, however, has focused on the problems of location, location-sca…
A Proof of the Herschel-Maxwell Theorem Using the Strong Law of Large Numbers
Somabha Mukherjee
In this article, we use the strong law of large numbers to give a proof of the Herschel-Maxwell theorem, which characterizes the normal distribution as the distribution of the comp…