Timeline for Chernoff bound when we only have upper bound of expectation
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| May 3, 2015 at 13:07 | history | edited | Louis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Followed my own suggestion and traced through the proof.
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| Apr 30, 2015 at 22:56 | history | edited | D.W.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Define "centered"
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| Apr 30, 2015 at 22:48 | comment | added | Nicholas Mancuso | @D.W., isn't that implicit from "centered"? That is, $X_i$ is centered in [-1, 1], => $E[X_i] = 0$. | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 22:04 | history | edited | D.W.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fix wording.
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| Apr 30, 2015 at 7:40 | history | edited | Louis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added independence assumption, discussion of why knowing the expectation helps.
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| Apr 29, 2015 at 21:26 | history | answered | Louis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |