On a conjecture concerning the sum of independent Rademacher random variables
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Publication:6229840
arXiv1112.4988MaRDI QIDQ6229840FDOQ6229840
Authors: Martien C. A. van Zuijlen 
Publication date: 21 December 2011
Abstract: It is shown that at least 50% of the probability mass of a sum of independent Rademacher random variables is within one standard deviation from its mean. This lower bound is sharp, it is much better than for instance the bound that can be obtained from application of the Chebishev inequality and the bound will have nice applications in finite sampling theory and in random walk theory. This old conjecture is of interest in itself, but has also an appealing reformulation in probability theory and in geometry.
Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)
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