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BOUNDS ON TAIL PROBABILITIES OF DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

Bernhard Klar
Bernhard Klar
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We examine several approaches to derive lower and upper bounds on tail probabilities of discrete distributions. Numerical comparisons exemplify the quality of the bounds.

Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 161 - 171
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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