Talk:Total variation distance of probability measures

Dead link
Reference [1] http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~sourav/Lecture2.pdf yields a 404 error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.156.32.168 (talk) 02:42, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Relation to L1
"When the set is countable, the total variation distance is related to the" -> not only when the set is countable. This characterization (known as Scheffé's identity) also holds in the continuous setting (see. e.g., Theorem 5.1 of Combinatorial Methods in Density Estimation by Luc Devroye, Gabor Lugosi (2001). Clément Canonne (talk) 21:45, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Minus not showing
For some reason, the minus sign inside the formula is not displayed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David cian (talk • contribs) 21:24, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

"Definition" not easy to understand
The current definition is hard going. Anyone feel like recasting the definition in easy to understand text?

I think I understand the graph. Could we at least put that definition first? W102102 (talk) 18:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)