Measure concentration for Euclidean distance in the case of dependent random variables

Annals of Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 3 B, 2004, Pages 2526-2544

  Marton, Katalin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dobrushin Shlosman mixing condition; Gibbs sampler; Measure concentration; Relative entropy; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544232692     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117904000000702     Document Type: Article

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