Best lower bound on the probability of a binomial exceeding its expectation
Probability
2021-08-12 v1 Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
Let be a random variable distributed according to the binomial distribution with parameters and . It is shown that if , where , the best possible constant factor.
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@article{arxiv.2108.04916,
title = {Best lower bound on the probability of a binomial exceeding its expectation},
author = {Iosif Pinelis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04916},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
7 pages; to appear in Statistics and Probability Letters