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Rademacher distribution

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In probability theory and statistics, the Rademacher distribution (which is named after Hans Rademacher) is a discrete probability distribution where a random variate X has a 50% chance of being +1 and a 50% chance of being -1.[1]

A series (that is, a sum) of Rademacher distributed variables can be regarded as a simple symmetrical random walk where the step size is 1.

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Mathematical formulation

The probability mass function of this distribution is

In terms of the Dirac delta function, as

Bounds on sums of independent Rademacher variables

There are various results in probability theory around analyzing the sum of i.i.d. Rademacher variables, including concentration inequalities such as Bernstein inequalities as well as anti-concentration inequalities like Tomaszewski's conjecture.

Concentration inequalities

Let {xi} be a set of random variables with a Rademacher distribution. Let {ai} be a sequence of real numbers. Then

where ||a||2 is the Euclidean norm of the sequence {ai}, t > 0 is a real number and Pr(Z) is the probability of event Z.[2]

Let Y = Σ xiai and let Y be an almost surely convergent series in a Banach space. The for t > 0 and s ≥ 1 we have[3]

for some constant c.

Let p be a positive real number. Then the Khintchine inequality says that[4]

where c1 and c2 are constants dependent only on p.

For p ≥ 1,

Tomaszewski’s conjecture

In 1986, Bogusław Tomaszewski proposed a question about the distribution of the sum of independent Rademacher variables. A series of works on this question[5][6] culminated into a proof in 2020 by Nathan Keller and Ohad Klein of the following conjecture.[7]

Conjecture. Let , where and the 's are independent Rademacher variables. Then

For example, when , one gets the following bound, first shown by Van Zuijlen.[8]

The bound is sharp and better than that which can be derived from the normal distribution (approximately Pr > 0.31).

Applications

The Rademacher distribution has been used in bootstrapping.

The Rademacher distribution can be used to show that normally distributed and uncorrelated does not imply independent.

Random vectors with components sampled independently from the Rademacher distribution are useful for various stochastic approximations, for example:

Rademacher random variables are used in the Symmetrization Inequality.

Related distributions

  • Bernoulli distribution: If X has a Rademacher distribution, then has a Bernoulli(1/2) distribution.
  • Laplace distribution: If X has a Rademacher distribution and Y ~ Exp(λ) is independent from X, then XY ~ Laplace(0, 1/λ).

References

  1. ^ Hitczenko, P.; Kwapień, S. (1994). "On the Rademacher series". Probability in Banach Spaces. Progress in probability. Vol. 35. pp. 31–36. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0253-0_2. ISBN 978-1-4612-6682-2.
  2. ^ Montgomery-Smith, S. J. (1990). "The distribution of Rademacher sums". Proc Amer Math Soc. 109 (2): 517–522. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1990-1013975-0.
  3. ^ Dilworth, S. J.; Montgomery-Smith, S. J. (1993). "The distribution of vector-valued Radmacher series". Ann Probab. 21 (4): 2046–2052. arXiv:math/9206201. doi:10.1214/aop/1176989010. JSTOR 2244710. S2CID 15159626.
  4. ^ Khintchine, A. (1923). "Über dyadische Brüche". Math. Z. 18 (1): 109–116. doi:10.1007/BF01192399. S2CID 119840766.
  5. ^ Holzman, Ron; Kleitman, Daniel J. (1992-09-01). "On the product of sign vectors and unit vectors". Combinatorica. 12 (3): 303–316. doi:10.1007/BF01285819. ISSN 1439-6912. S2CID 20281665.
  6. ^ Boppana, Ravi B.; Holzman, Ron (2017-08-31). "Tomaszewski's Problem on Randomly Signed Sums: Breaking the 3/8 Barrier". arXiv:1704.00350 [math.CO].
  7. ^ Keller, Nathan; Klein, Ohad (2021-08-03). "Proof of Tomaszewski's Conjecture on Randomly Signed Sums". arXiv:2006.16834 [math.CO].
  8. ^ van Zuijlen, Martien C. A. (2011). "On a conjecture concerning the sum of independent Rademacher random variables". arXiv:1112.4988. Bibcode:2011arXiv1112.4988V. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Avron, H.; Toledo, S. (2011). "Randomized algorithms for estimating the trace of an implicit symmetric positive semidefinite matrix". Journal of the ACM. 58 (2): 8. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.380.9436. doi:10.1145/1944345.1944349. S2CID 5827717.
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