Timeline for Given a total variation distance from uniform, how well can we bound the probabilities of sub-intervals?
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| Jun 12, 2021 at 16:28 | history | edited | Anthony Quas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2021 at 14:12 | comment | added | Anthony Quas | It's definitely not sharp: for that you would need the extremal example for one inequality to be extremal for the other also. I don't know a name for this kind of inequality. | |
| Jun 12, 2021 at 13:14 | comment | added | user44143 | Thanks! Is there an example to show that this $1/18$ is sharp? And is there a name for inequalities like this? | |
| Jun 12, 2021 at 13:13 | history | edited | user44143 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2021 at 5:43 | history | answered | Anthony Quas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |