On lower bounds for hypergeometric tails
Probability
2026-04-24 v2
Abstract
Let be positive integers such that , and let be a hypergeometric random variable counting the number of black marbles in a sample without replacement of size from an urn that contains black and white marbles. It is shown that Furthermore, provided that as well as that , it is shown that Auxiliary results which may be of independent interest include an upper bound on the tail conditional expectation and a lower bound on the mean absolute deviation of the hypergeometric distribution.
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@article{arxiv.2601.09485,
title = {On lower bounds for hypergeometric tails},
author = {Jianhang Ai and Christos Pelekis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09485},
year = {2026}
}
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14 pages