A. Orlitsky

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20122023

most citedNear-optimal-sample estimators for spherical Gaussian mixtures

23 citations · 94 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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math.ST2019★ 5 cited

Data Amplification: Instance-Optimal Property Estimation

Yi Hao, Alon Orlitsky

The best-known and most commonly used distribution-property estimation technique uses a plug-in estimator, with empirical frequency replacing the underlying distribution. We presen…

math.ST2015★ 1 cited

Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth $lo g n$ in the bush

Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Yihong Wu

Estimating the number of unseen species is an important problem in many scientific endeavors. Its most popular formulation, introduced by Fisher, uses $n$ samples to predict the nu…

Data Amplification: Instance-Optimal Property Estimation

Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth logn in the bush

Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth $lo g n$ in the bush