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- From: wtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Wayne Jenkins)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds???
- Message-ID: <16323@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 07:07:09 GMT
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- An author of a recent paper has referred to Chernoff-Hoeffning bounds:
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- "Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds are used to determine the sample size
- N needed to bound the error in the probability estimate"
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- Unfortunately, no reference has been cited. Can anyone point me toward
- a reference for this material. The statistics books available in our
- library dont seem to refer to it and my search through abstracts hasnt
- been able to locate these bounds under this name.
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- Any help would be much appreciated!!!!
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- Thanks,
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- Wayne.
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