On the Bennett-Hoeffding inequality

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Publication:2438252


DOI10.1214/12-AIHP495zbMath1288.60025arXiv0902.4058MaRDI QIDQ2438252

Iosif Pinelis

Publication date: 10 March 2014

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4058


60E07: Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions

60G51: Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

60G42: Martingales with discrete parameter

60E10: Characteristic functions; other transforms

60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks

60G48: Generalizations of martingales


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