Unlock: Minimax Lower Bounds: Le Cam, Fano, Assouad, and the Reduction to Testing
Why upper bounds are not enough. The reduction-to-testing principle, Le Cam's two-point method, Fano's inequality, the Assouad hypercube lemma, packing and metric-entropy bridges, and applications to nonparametric, sparse, and locally-private estimation.
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