Put , , and . The deterministic integrand in the Itô integral implies that the increments are independent random variables with normal distributions . The Gaussian fourth moment gives
These identities include . Since the summands of are centered and independent, all cross terms in its second moment vanish. Consequently,
Thus works for every observation partition. The last step uses the total interval length, rather than assuming equally spaced observations.
For each ball, the event of landing in is a Bernoulli distribution trial. Under the null hypothesis its probability is . Under the selected alternative , its probability is . The placements are independent random variables conditional on that selected index, so the count has the binomial distribution:
The second assertion concerns , rather than the unconditional mixture model .
The Hoeffding lemma for a Bernoulli distribution variable gives . Multiplication of the moment-generating functions of the independent random variables gives . Thus the centered count is a sub-Gaussian random variable with variance proxy . The Chernoff bound, optimized at , gives
The same estimate holds for the lower tail by applying the Chernoff bound to . No independence between different bin counts is needed.
Because the scalar signal and the noise vector are independent random variables with normal distributions, their sum is a Gaussian random vector. Its expected value is zero, and the covariance matrix is
Thus this is a rank-one covariance spike. Each summand has expected value , so . Here the empirical matrix is an uncentered empirical second-moment matrix; because the population expected value is known to be zero, it is an unbiased estimator of the covariance matrix. The TeX's apparent factorial denominator is a transcription error.
Use the convention for the centered sub-Gaussian random variable. Applying the two-sided Chernoff bound to gives . Since , this already supplies the requested bound:
For averages of independent random variables, the stronger useful statement is that the centered square of a sub-Gaussian random variable is a sub-exponential random variable. The Bernstein bound for independent sub-exponential variables then give for a universal positive . These are the concentration theorems used for quadratic scan statistics.
Uniform expectations require nonempty finite sets; assume this throughout the analytic argument. For real-valued functions on , define the box norm by
All four variables are sampled as independent random variables with replacement, so repeated coordinates are included. The defining fourth power equals
If it vanishes, every summand vanishes. In particular, the terms give for each , so . Absolute homogeneity of a norm follows directly: .
For the triangle inequality, prove the mixed box Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Write
Separating the two averages and applying the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in gives
Expanding the square and reversing the order of finite sums,
by a second Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Thus . Expand into its sixteen multilinear terms and apply this bound to each term. Their upper bounds sum to . Taking fourth roots yields the triangle inequality. Together with definiteness of a norm and absolute homogeneity of a norm, this proves the box norm is a norm. Complex functions require conjugates and are outside the printed real-valued convention.
For the bilinear correlation bound for the box norm, use the normalized L2 norm: let and , . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in gives
The remaining factor is . By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in , its magnitude is at most
Taking square roots proves
For the tripartite graph, assume its parts are nonempty and write for its adjacency indicator functions. Let , so . The normalized triangle count is
The constant-degree hypothesis is exactly for each . Therefore the contribution of the constant is
For fixed , apply the bilinear correlation bound for the box norm with and . Since these are indicator functions, and , the fraction of adjacent to . Averaging and applying the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in gives the sharper triangle counting with one box-uniform pair and constant opposite degree estimate
Multiplying by yields
The middle bound also handles or , when the triangle count is zero.
To connect explicitly with the suggested expansion, put , . Both have overall mean zero, and for every . Consequently ; all terms with constant reduce to . The terms containing combine into the single error just estimated. This is where the exact degree assumption is used. If any part is empty the triangle count itself is zero, but the printed uniform expectations and edge density of a bipartite graph values would be undefined; the nonempty-parts convention must therefore be stated rather than dividing by zero.
The negative binomial regression assumes independent random variables conditional on their recorded days, with
The logarithmic link function applies to the conditional expectation, not to the observed count. The displayed maximum-likelihood estimates are
and the dispersion parameter for the fitted family is one. Thus the fitted variance is , practically the Poisson distribution variance at these means.
Increasing the day by one multiplies the conditional expectation by , a decrease of about . Comparing days 365 and 1 gives . The negative slope has Wald statistic approximately , so under the stated model assumptions there is very strong evidence of a decreasing conditional mean:
This is an association with calendar day, not a causal effect established by the regression. The printed negative-binomial residual deviance is on residual degrees of freedom, which is a reason to investigate the adequacy of the assumed count model and dependence structure. In particular, the small reported slope standard error cannot make a misspecified model reliable.
For independent random variables , the full logistic regression has linear predictor
Layout A is the reference level in a regression factor. The smaller model sets , leaving the same logit link and the price predictor. In either case
The saturated statistical model allows a separate probability per observation; its maximizing probabilities are , with log-likelihood zero under . Hence the binomial deviance for either fitted model is
Equivalently, write the summands as . The fitted probabilities differ between the two models, but the definition of binomial deviance is the same. A residual deviance for individual binary data need not itself have an accurate chi-squared distribution approximation; the nested-model difference used next has a different asymptotic justification.
The tail sigma-algebra is
Its events depend only on arbitrarily late coordinates. The Kolmogorov zero-one law states that for a sequence of independent random variables, every tail event has probability zero or one:
Identical probability distributions and integrability are not required for the Kolmogorov zero-one law.
Taking in (c) and using that has no atom at gives
This is the distribution function of the Brownian first-passage time; (b) ensures that it is a proper probability distribution. Comparing these distribution functions gives the Brownian scaling identity for .
For an integer , set and successively hit the levels . The Strong Markov property at these finite stopping times and spatial translation imply that
are independent random variables, each with the probability distribution of . Thus, for independent copies ,
Therefore
The paper's definition is the strictly stable distribution convention, with no centering term, a special case of a stable distribution.
Let be the natural filtration. An integer-valued random variable is a stopping time with respect to when
Thus whether one has stopped by time can be decided from the first observations, without seeing future variables. Equivalently, .
Write the stopped sum as
The event depends only on , so its indicator and are independent random variables. Since and , Tonelli theorem gives
We may consequently exchange expectation and summation. Using the tail-sum formula for proves Wald's equation:
For the renewal process, put and . The random variable is a stopping time. Since , Wald's equation gives
and hence
For , set and . Wald's equation still applies to the stopping time and the independent variables . Because ,
Therefore
By the monotone convergence theorem, as . Combining the bounds proves the elementary renewal theorem
For a fixed word over equally likely symbols, the waiting time for a word in independent uniform symbols has mean , where runs through the lengths of the borders of a word, including the full word. The word lava' has no proper nonempty border, so $$ \boxed{\mathbb E\tau_{\mathtt{lava}}=100^4=100\,000\,000}. $$ The word aa' has borders of lengths and , so
For a direct check, let be the expected remaining time with no trailing a' and $E_1$ with one trailing a'. Then
which gives .
The covariance matrix is
If , the moment-generating function in part (ii) factors into the product of the two marginal moment-generating functions. Thus and are independent random variables; this is the independence of uncorrelated jointly normal variables.
By bilinearity of covariance,
Choose
Then is bivariate normal by part (i) and has zero covariance, so is a normal random variable independent of . Hence .
For this model, the Gauss-Markov theorem states that is the unique minimum-variance linear unbiased estimator of : if
is unbiased for every , then .
Indeed,
so unbiasedness is equivalent to . Write
The constraint becomes . Since the errors are independent with common variance ,
Equality holds exactly when every , which gives and .
By independence of the two simple random walks, linearity of expectation, and symmetry of their transition probabilities,
The Chapman-Kolmogorov equation identifies the inner sum as , so
A simple random walk on the integer line can return to only at an even time. Since it is recurrent at , part (a) gives
Therefore .
Assume first that is a cap set. Over the finite field , define
Since is one at and zero at , is the indicator function of . If satisfy this equation, then either they are all equal or they are three distinct points; the latter is excluded. Thus is a diagonal tensor with every diagonal entry equal to one, and the slice rank of a diagonal tensor gives
Expand as a polynomial. Every variable has exponent at most two, and every monomial has total degree at most . Splitting a monomial's degree among its -, -, and -blocks, at least one block has degree at most . Assign each monomial to one such block and group together terms with the same low-degree block monomial. Each group is one slice, so
where
If , then the are independent random variables uniformly distributed on and
by the given tail probability bound. Consequently every cap set satisfies
Put . For , the preceding bound is at most . For each of the finitely many , a cap set is a proper subset of , so its size is at most . We may therefore choose
Every cap set then has size strictly below . Equivalently,
Let be the number of ice creams in price category and score category . The fitted Poisson regression assumes that the nine counts are independent random variables with
where the logarithmic link function is used and excellent is the reference level in a regression factor, so . Equivalently,
This is the independence log-linear model for a two-way contingency table: price and score have main effects but no interaction.
Saying that has law means that is the pushforward measure
For a real random variable, is a probability measure on .
The pair consists of independent random variables when
for every pair of Borel sets ; equivalently, their joint law is the product of their marginal laws.
Conditional on the observed colleges, the stochastic block model assumes that the friendship indicators are independent random variables. For arbitrary linear predictors , their Bernoulli distribution likelihood is
Thus the three requested likelihoods are
For every Borel set , let
be its random point count. A Non-homogeneous Poisson point process with intensity function of a point process is characterized by:
Because has a density with respect to Lebesgue measure, it is atomless, so the process is simple: almost surely no location occurs more than once.