Some improved tail bounds for the sum of variables with geometric distribution

DOI10.1080/03610926.2019.1618476OpenAlexW2946778011MaRDI QIDQ5078035

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Publication date: 20 May 2022

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2019.1618476

zbMATH Keywords

inequalitiestail probabilityprobability generating functiongeometric distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Statistics (62-XX) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

Cites Work

• Tail bounds for sums of geometric and exponential variables
• Noncommutative Bennett and Rosenthal inequalities
• On the Bennett-Hoeffding inequality
• Probability Inequalities for the Sum of Independent Random Variables
• An improved Bennett's inequality
• Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables

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