Estimating the unseen: an n/log(n)-sample estimator for entropy and support size, shown optimal via new CLTs.

Gregory Valiant Paul Valiant

Published in: STOC (2011)

Keyphrases

worst case
dynamic programming
least squares
maximum likelihood
optimal solution
sample size
optimal design
end users
optimality criterion
conditional expectation
variance estimator
lower bound
maximum a posteriori
memory requirements
optimal control
estimation error