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SUMMARY:Yvik Swan - On the distance between discrete and continuous rando
 m variables on the real line
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DESCRIPTION:Yvik Swan (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) will speak in the P
 robability seminar. (in-person)\n\nWe revisit Stein’s method of approxim
 ate computation of expectations\, here with the aim of comparing a discr
 ete distribution on some ordered set $\\{x_1\,\\ldots\,x_n\\}\\subset \\
 mathbb{R}$ and a continuous distribution on some interval $I\\subset\\ma
 thbb{R}$. We obtain abstract bounds on Wasserstein and Kolmogorov distan
 ces which we apply to several examples\, including (1) exponential appro
 ximation of the spectrum of the Johnson graph\, (2) beta approximation o
 f the Polya-Eggenberger distribution\, and (3) normal approximation of a
  distribution arising in the many worlds interpretation of quantum mecha
 nics. This is joint work with Gilles Germain (ULB). 
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LOCATION:Maurice Priestley Room G.108\, Alan Turing Building\, Manchester
 
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