Lower Bounds for Tails of Sums of Independent Symmetric Random Variables

DOI10.1137/S0040585X97983651zbMath1193.60061arXivmath/0609200OpenAlexW2035844724MaRDI QIDQ3556724

Lutz Mattner

Publication date: 26 April 2010

Published in: Theory of Probability & Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609200

zbMATH Keywords

concentration functionPoisson binomial distributionunimodalityBernoulli convolutiondeviation probabilitiessymmetric three point convolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Large deviations (60F10)

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