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Expectation closure error for a nonlinear recurrence
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2026-10-31
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A
bound
E
[
B
j
+
1
∣
B
j
]
≤
f
(
B
j
)
implies
E
B
j
+
1
≤
E
f
(
B
j
)
. It does not by itself imply
E
B
j
+
1
≤
f
(
E
B
j
)
. For
f
(
b
)
=
b
2
/
n
,
Jensen's inequality
goes
in the opposite direction. The missing contribution is the
variance
:
E
[
B
j
2
]
=
(
E
B
j
)
2
+
Var
(
B
j
)
.
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