Learning Poisson Binomial Distributions

Learning Poisson Binomial Distributions

Probability Seminar
Apr 25, 2012, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Ilias Diakonikolas, C.S Dept, U.C. Berkeley
We consider a basic problem in unsupervised learning: learning an unknown Poisson Binomial Distribution. A Poisson Binomial Distribution (PBD) over {0,1,...,n} is the distribution of a sum of n independent Bernoulli random variables which may have arbitrary, potentially non-equal, expectations. These distributions were first studied by S. Poisson in 1837 and are a natural n-parameter...