Characterization of a family of discrete distributions via a Chernoff type inequality (Q1091689)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4011639
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4011639 |
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Characterization of a family of discrete distributions via a Chernoff type inequality (English)
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1987
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A characterization theorem based on an inequality of the Chernoff type [\textit{H. Chernoff}, Ann. Probab. 9, 533-535 (1981; Zbl 0457.60014)] is proved for a family of non-negative integer valued random variables.
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discrete distributions
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variance bounds
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Chernoff inequality
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characterization theorem
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non-negative integer valued random variables
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