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The American Statistician Volume 51, 1997 - Issue 1

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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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Philips , T. and Nelson , R. 1995 . “The Moment Bound is Tighter than Chernoff's Bound for Positive Tail Probabilities,” . The American Statistician , 49 : 175 – 178 .
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