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MiS Preprint
22/2015
Mode Poset Probability Polytopes
Guido Montúfar and Johannes Rauh
Abstract
A mode of a probability vector is a local maximum with respect to some vicinity structure on the set of elementary events. The mode inequalities cut out a polytope from the simplex of probability vectors.
Related to this is the concept of strong modes. A strong mode of a distribution is an elementary event that has more probability mass than all its direct neighbors together. The set of probability distributions with a given set of strong modes is again a polytope. We study the vertices, the facets, and the volume of such polytopes depending on the sets of (strong) modes and the vicinity structures.
In: Proceedings of the 10th workshop on uncertainty processing WUPES '15, Moninec, Czech Republic, September 16-19, 2015 / Václav Kratochvíl (ed.) Praha : Oeconomica, 2015. - pp. 147-154
