2 papers
cs.GT2024
Pre- and Post-Auction Discounts in First-Price Auctions
Miguel Alcobendas, Eric Bax
One method to offer some bidders a discount in a first-price auction is to augment their bids when selecting a winner but only charge them their original bids should they win. Anot…
math.ST2023
Non-asymptotic approximations for Pearson's chi-square statistic and its application to confidence intervals for strictly convex functions of the probability weights of discrete distributions
Eric Bax, Frédéric Ouimet
In this paper, we develop a non-asymptotic local normal approximation for multinomial probabilities. First, we use it to find non-asymptotic total variation bounds between the meas…