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Name: Chernoff's Bound and Hoeffding's Inequality
ID: m16264
Language: English (en)
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: Chernoff's Bound, Hoeffding's Inequality
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Maintainers: Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Latest version: 1.2 (history)
First publication date: May 1, 2008 6:01 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Feb 11, 2009 10:36 am US/Central

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Version: 1.2 Feb 11, 2009 10:36 am US/Central by Daniel Williamson
Changes: 
fixed formatting issues
Version: 1.1 May 16, 2008 4:17 pm GMT-5 by Robert Nowak
Changes: 
Created module.

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