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| <h3>Theta Sketch Confidence Intervals, Notes</h3> |
| <ol> |
| <li> |
| <p>The Theta Sketches within the DataSketches Library provide Frequentist Confidence Intervals |
| based on the tails of the Binomial Distribution.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>These bounds are only approximate, but we provide a guarantee |
| (backed by experiments, not by proofs) that neither bound is off |
| by more than 1 percent of the estimate.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>To avoid numerical issues and high computational cost, the implementation |
| carves up the input space (|S|, p) into multiple regions, and uses |
| different approximations on each.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>At a high level, there is a two-way split, between large |S|, and small |S|. |
| When |S| > 120, the continuity-corrected Gaussian approximation to the Binomial |
| Distribution satisfies the 1 percent guarantee, so we just use that.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>For small |S| <= 120, the main idea is to fall back to the exact Binomial |
| Distribution. However, that is expensive, and worse yet, subject to |
| numerical issues. These issues are serious, and occur when p is very |
| close to 1.0 or 0.0. Therefore we immediately split off two more cases.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>When p is very close to 1.0, we already know (because |S| is small) |
| that the answer is [|S|-1, |S|+1], so we just return that instead |
| of trying to evaluate the incomplete beta function with difficult inputs.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>When p is very close to 0.0 (say 1e-6), one could avoid the numerical issues by |
| exploiting the fact that the LB and the UB are very close to being |
| constant multiples of the estimate. The exact multiples would depend on |
| |S|, and delta, but could be pre-computed and stored in tables.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>It turns that a slightly fancier version of the idea (7) allows a |
| satisfactory (i.e. 1 percent) approximation to the bounds to be |
| obtained not only for small p, but also for moderate p [but not for large p]. |
| This version of the idea uses the continuity-corrected Gaussian approximation |
| to the Binomial Distribution, but with an “adjusted” number of standard |
| deviations, that is different for the LB and for the UB, and for each value |
| of |S| and of delta. However, these adjusted numbers can be precomputed |
| and stored in a table. This is what the library does.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>We have now carved away enough cases so that we only need to compute |
| exact bounds for 0 <= |S| <= 120, for p values that are large (although |
| not super-close to 1.0).</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>The switchover between scheme (8) and scheme (9) is determined by a threshold |
| on p which depends on the value of |S|. The library’s specific threshold |S|/360 |
| was empirically chosen to support the promise of 1 percent accuracy.</p> |
| |
| <ol> |
| <li> |
| <p>The exact bounds needed by scheme (9) could be computed using |
| binary search on the tails of the Binomial Distribution, with the |
| latter computed using a high-quality implementation of the |
| Incomplete Beta Function obtained from a Scientific Computing |
| library.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>We have written and heavily used some auxiliary code |
| which does exactly that: binary search using the Incomplete Beta |
| Function. It was used to pre-compute the tables mentioned in |
| point (7); to choose values for the various empirically determined |
| thresholds such as 120 and |S|/360; and finally in an extensive grid |
| search covering the input parameter space to verify that our overall |
| approximation scheme satisfies the 1 percent accuracy guarantee.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>However, it was impractical for the Theta Sketch Library as such to include |
| a high quality implementation of the Incomplete Beta Function; writing one |
| is a task best left to experts, and we didn’t want the Theta Sketch Library |
| to have an external dependence on a Scientific library.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>Therefore we developed a more direct approach the computing the exact LB and UB. |
| It is based on an interesting combinatorial identity and exploits the facts |
| that p >= |S|/360 and |S| <= 120. It employs a simple linear search, |
| so there is no tricky bracketing and binary search code, and it takes at |
| most 30 microseconds to compute [the slowest input is |S|=1, p = 1/360].</p> |
| </li> |
| </ol> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>We mention that UB=LB=|S| when p=1, and LB=0 when |S|=0. Also, the library |
| uses a closed-form expression for the UB when |S|=0, and for the LB when |S|=1.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>So far, we have been discussing the Frequentist Confidence Interval based on the |
| tails of the Binomial Distribution. In some cases (for example when p is very close |
| to 1.0) the LB can be smaller than |S|. However, it is obvious that n >= |S|, so the |
| library returns |S| instead of the official Binomial LB in that case.</p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>In addition, just in case it is possible (we are not sure) for the |
| library to compute a confidence interval that doesn’t cover the |
| estimate, we shield the user from these hypothetical outputs by |
| by always checking and if necessary growing the interval to cover |
| the estimate.</p> |
| </li> |
| </ol> |
| |
| <p>Also see the <a href="https://github.com/apache/datasketches-website/tree/master/docs/pdf/ThetaSketchFramework.pdf">Theta Sketch Framework</a> paper.</p> |
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