A note on a variance bound for the multinomial and the negative multinomial distribution
Probability
2018-06-13 v2
Abstract
We prove a Chernoff-type upper variance bound for the multinomial and the negative multinomial distribution. An application is also given.
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@article{arxiv.1110.3265,
title = {A note on a variance bound for the multinomial and the negative multinomial distribution},
author = {G. Afendras and V. Papathanasiou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3265},
year = {2018}
}
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8 pages