The harmonic mean formula for probabilit
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David Aldous
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Article
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1989
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Under a symmetry condition, the probability of a union of events can be expressed in terms of the harmonic mean number of events which occur, conditioned on a specific event occurring. This leads to improvements of Boole's inequality in settings where standard inclusion-exclusion techniques fail. Ap