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most citedWeak Poincaré inequality comparisons for ideal and hybrid slice sampling

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Robustness of random-walk Metropolis for steep potentials

Sam Power

In Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, light-tailed target distributions present something of a poisoned chalice: their light tails offer good confinement, and tend to imply good mi…

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The sharp one-dimensional convex sub-Gaussian comparison constant

Damek Davis, Sam Power

Let $X$ be an integrable real random variable with mean zero and two-sided sub-Gaussian tail $P (∣ X ∣ > t) \leq 2 e^{- t^{2} /2}$ for all $t \geq 0$ . We determine the smallest consta…