On maximal tail probability of sums of nonnegative, independent and identically distributed random variables

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2017.04.024zbMath1380.60029arXiv1602.03547OpenAlexW2962988203MaRDI QIDQ1687185

Tomasz Łuczak, Matas Šileikis, Katarzyna Mieczkowska

Publication date: 22 December 2017

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03547

zbMATH Keywords

tail probabilityMarkov inequalityi.i.d. random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Extremal problems in graph theory (05C35) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Hypergraphs (05C65)

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