Improving discrepancy by moving a few points

Gleb Smirnov, Roman Vershynin

Published: 2025/3/6

Abstract

We show how to improve the discrepancy of an iid sample by moving only a few points. Specifically, modifying \( O(m) \) sample points on average reduces the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance to the population distribution to \(1/m\).

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