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

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2011

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Brown, Daniel G.

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

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concentration inequality, geometric variables

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

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Waterloo Research
Computer Science