2 papers
math.PR2026
Sharp Tail Bounds Beyond Twice the Mean
Philipp Strack, Jannik M. Westermann
Consider independent, non-negative, mean at most one random variables, . We show the following bound on the probability of their sum exceeding a threshold :…
econ.TH2026
Learning Through Imitation: An Experiment
Marina Agranov, Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma, Philipp Strack +1
We compare how well agents aggregate information in two repeated social learning environments. In the first setting agents have access to a public data set. In the second they have…