数学理论与应用 ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (1): 1-15.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-8074.2024.01.001

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一些常见分布族的反集中函数

胡泽春1,*, 宋仁明2, 谭渊1   

  1. 1. 四川大学数学学院, 成都, 610065; 2. 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校数学系, IL, 61801
  • 出版日期:2024-03-28 发布日期:2024-04-16

On the Anti-concentration Functions of Some Familiar Families of Distributions

Hu Zechun1,*, Song Renming2, Tan Yuan1   

  1. 1. College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  • Online:2024-03-28 Published:2024-04-16
  • Contact: Hu Zechun, Professor, PhD; E-mail: zchu@scu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12171335, 11931004, 12071011), the Science Development Project of Sichuan University (No. 2020SCUNL201) and the Simons Foundation (No. 960480)

摘要:

假定 $\{X_{\alpha}\}$为一族服从某类分布的随机变量,具有有限期望 $\E[X_{\alpha}]$和有限方差 $\Var(X_{\alpha})$, 其中 $\alpha$为一参数. 受Hollom 和 Portier 的论文 (arXiv: 2306.07811v1)的启发, 在本文中我们考虑反集中函数

$(0, \infty)\ni y\to \inf_{\alpha}\P\left(|X_{\alpha}-\E[X_{\alpha}]|\geq y \sqrt{\Var(X_{\alpha})}\right)$,并给出其清晰表示. 我们将证明,对于某些常见分布族,包括均匀分布、指数分布、非退化高斯分布和学生$t$-分布,反集中函数不恒为零, 这表明相应随机变量族具有某种反集中性质;然而对另外一些常见分布族,包括二项分布、泊松分布、负二项分布、超几何分布、伽马分布、帕雷托分布、威布尔分布、对数正态分布和贝塔分布, 反集中函数恒为零.

关键词: 分布, 测度反集中

Abstract:

Let $\{X_{\alpha}\}$ be a family of random variables following a certain type of distributions with finite expectation $\E[X_{\alpha}]$

and finite variance $\Var(X_{\alpha})$, where $\alpha$ is a parameter. Motivated by the recent paper of Hollom and Portier (arXiv: 2306.07811v1), we study the anti-concentration function

$(0, \infty)\ni y\to \inf_{\alpha}\P\left(|X_{\alpha}-\E[X_{\alpha}]|\geq y \sqrt{\Var(X_{\alpha})}\right)$ and find its explicit expression.

We show that, for certain familiar families of distributions, including the uniform, exponential, non-degenerate Gaussian and student's $t$-distributions, the anti-concentration function is not identically zero, which means that the corresponding families of random variables

have some sort of anti-concentration property; while for some other familiar families of distributions, including the binomial, Poisson, negative binomial, hypergeometric, Gamma, Pareto, Weibull, log-normal and Beta distributions, the anti-concentration function is identically zero.

Key words: Distribution, Measure anti-concentration