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In probability and statistics, a probability distribution assigns a probability to each measurable subset of the possible outcomes of a random experiment, survey, or procedure of statistical inference.

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How to estimate a total variation distance?

Let $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ be independent Bernoulli random variables. Then $Pr[X_i=1]=Pr[X_i=0]=1/2$. Let $X = (X_1, \ldots, X_n)$ and $v \in \{0,1\}^n$, $Y=v \cdot X$, $Z=Y-1$. Let \begin{align} \mu_1(x …