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Comparison between the Chernoff and Factorial Moment Bounds for Discrete Random Variables

Philippe Naveau Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, USA
Pages 40-41 | Received 01 Feb 1996, Published online: 17 Feb 2012
 
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Abstract

The purpose of this note is to establish the superiority of the factorial moment bound over Chernoff's bound for non-negative integer-valued random variables.

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