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Question about $n$ random points in a regular polygon, and a limiting probability

Suppose we choose $n$ uniformly random points in a disk, then draw the smallest circle that encloses all of those points. There is evidence suggesting that the probability that the enclosing circle is ...
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Convergence of Bayesian posterior

Let $\Delta [0,1]$ denote the set of all probability distributions on the unit interval. Let $\mu \in \Delta [0,1]$ denote an arbitrary prior. Importantly, $\mu$ does not necessarily admit a density ...
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Reference Request: Total Variation Between Dependent and Independent Bernoulli Processes

Let $X$ be a random variable taking values in $\{0,1\}^n$ with the following distribution. For each coordinate $i$, we have $p_i = P(X_i = 1) = c/\sqrt n$, where $c$ is a (very small) constant. ...
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Reference request for invariance principles

In various places, an example being https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoap/1034625254, the authors consider a discrete-time process (real-valued, say) $(X_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$, define ...
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