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How I wasted too long finding a concentration inequality for sums of geometric variables

Files

negbin.pdf (90.84 KB)

Date

2011

Authors

Brown, Daniel G.

Abstract

I wanted a concentration inequality for sums of iid geometric random variables. This took way too long.

Keywords

concentration inequality, geometric variables

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10012/17210

Collections

Waterloo Research
Computer Science