Mean absolute deviations of sample means and minimally concentrated binomials

DOI10.1214/aop/1048516540zbMath1021.60015OpenAlexW2052970252MaRDI QIDQ1394533

Lutz Mattner

Publication date: 20 October 2003

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1048516540

zbMATH Keywords

concentration functionsums of independent random variablesbinomial distributionmoment inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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