Optimal Hoeffding-like inequalities under a symmetry assumption

DOI10.1080/02331880600619085zbMath1106.62116OpenAlexW2019339987MaRDI QIDQ3426338

G. D. C. Geuze, Vidmantas Bentkus, Martien C. A. Van Zuijlen

Publication date: 8 March 2007

Published in: Unnamed Author (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2066/60231

zbMATH Keywords

Hoeffding inequalitiesconfidence upper boundstail probability upper bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Survival analysis and censored data (62N99) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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• Confidence bounds for a parameter
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• Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables

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