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Volume 3, Issue 1, Article 7 |
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L'Hospital Type Rules for Monotonicity: Applications to Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables
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Authors: |
Iosif Pinelis, |
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Keywords:
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L'Hospital's Rule, Monotonicity, Probability inequalities, Sums of independent random variables, Student's statistic |
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Date Received:
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29/01/01 |
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Date Accepted:
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06/09/01 |
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Subject Codes: |
26A48,26D10,60E15,26D07,62H15,62F04,62F3
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Editors: |
Charles E. M. Pearce, |
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Abstract: |
This paper continues a series of results begun by a l'Hospital type rule for monotonicity, which is used here to obtain refinements of the Eaton-Pinelis inequalities for sums of bounded independent random variables.
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