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What is the motivation for Gaussian Tail Bounds?


What is the motivation for Gaussian Tail Bounds?

In my statistics class, we motivate tail inequalities for situations in which we have very limited information about a distribution yet we wish ...

Basic tail and concentration bounds 2 - UC Berkeley Statistics

For reasons to become clear in the sequel, the simplest type of ... bound (2.5) in deriving tail bounds for a Gaussian variable. 13.

Lecture 4: Concentration Inequalities 1 Gaussian tail bounds

For the case of a Gaussian distribution, we could have derived a tail bound directly without using the moment generating function or the Chernoff-bound.

Tail Bounds and Applications - CMU School of Computer Science

easy to reason about the tail behavior of even very simple random variables. ... expression for the tail of the Normal distribution, which must be computed.

Lecture 3: Tail Bounds 1 Motivation 2 Background

In this scenario, the uniform distribution is more like to have a tale value than the normal distribution is. Unfortunately, Markov's Inequality does not take ...

Concentration (or two sided tail bounds around expectations) of ...

My question is motivated by this question and this question, where the first was aimed for giving a one sided tail bound for maximum of ...

2 A few good inequalities 1 2.1 Tail bounds and concentration ...

subgaussian/subexponential tail bound for quadratic forms in independent subgaussian random variables. 2.1. Tail bounds and concentration. Basic::S:intro.

Lecture 01 & 02: the Central Limit Theorem and Tail Bounds

= O. 1 n50. + O. 1. √ n. = O. 1. √ n . We see that the tail mass of the standard Gaussian is only O 1 ... This error term is the main reason that we can't get ...

Lecture 8: Concentration Bounds - Princeton University

4.1 Motivation. How tight is Chebyshev's ... bounded mean and variance) converges to the Gaussian distribution, even if those random.

Tail probability bounds on $P(|Z| > t)$ tend to be useless for small $t ...

The distribution of ˉX near the true mean will depend on the distribution of X near the true mean, so you won't be able to bound it just by ...

Concentration inequalities and tail bounds - Stanford University

I Basics and motivation. 1 Law of large numbers. 2 Markov inequality. 3 ... -sub-Gaussian. Then for t 0,. P(X E[X] t) exp✓ t. 2. 2σ2 ◇. P(X E[X] t) ...

Tail Bounds on the Sum of Half Normal Random Variables

This type of problem arises when we wish to claim that the probability is small for a given random variable to be large. The tail probability ...

Sub-Gaussian tail bound for local martingales - Djalil Chafaï

This post is devoted to a sub-Gaussian tail bound and exponential square integrability for local martingales, taken from my master course on stochastic ...

Tail bounds for empirically standardized sums - arXiv

Motivated by this example, the paper analyzes other ways of empirically standardizing sums and establishes tail bounds that are sub-Gaussian or.

Lecture 6: February 5 6.1 Sub-Gaussian Random variables

Our previous results for Sub-Gaussian random variables allowed for us to naturally provide tail bounds for ... reason about how far these are from their.

Moments and tails

reasons: (i) moments contain information about the tails of a random ... Gaussian for all t, then we can bound the expectation or tail.

34 Sub-Gaussian random variables - Aditya Mahajan

The tails of Gaussian random variables decay fast which can be quantified using the following inequality. Proposition 34.1 (Mills inequality) If ...

12.3. Tail Bounds — Data 140 Textbook

When k is large, the bound does tell you something. You are looking at a probability quite far out in the tail of the distribution, and Markov's bound is ...

Gaussian tail bounds and a word of caution about CLT

The first part is more of an aside. In a variety of contexts, whether for testing Large Deviations Principles or calculating expectations by ...

(PDF) Tail Bounds for ℓ 1 Norm of Gaussian Random Matrices with ...

Tail bounds for eigenvalues of Gaussian random matrices are one of the hot study problems. In this paper, we present tail and expectation bounds ...