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On a bound of Hoeffding in the complex case

Probability 2016-03-03 v1

Abstract

It was proved by Hoeffding in 1963 that a real random variable X confined to [a, b] satisfies E e^(X--E X) \le e^((b--a)^2/8). We generalise this to complex random variables.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.00613,
  title  = {On a bound of Hoeffding in the complex case},
  author = {Mikhail Isaev and Brendan D. Mckay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00613},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Electronic Communications in Probability, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2016

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