Concentration inequalities using the entropy method

DOI10.1214/aop/1055425791zbMath1051.60020OpenAlexW1964718108WikidataQ58374469 ScholiaQ58374469MaRDI QIDQ1431503

Pascal Massart, Gábor Lugosi, Stéphane Boucheron

Publication date: 10 June 2004

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1055425791

zbMATH Keywords

logarithmic Sobolev inequalityempirical processesrandom graphsconcentration inequalitiesRademacher chaosRademacher averages

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Measures and integrals in product spaces (28A35)

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