Improved concentration bounds for sums of independent sub-exponential random variables
Abstract: Known Bernstein-type upper bounds on the tail probabilities for sums of independent zero-mean sub-exponential random variables are improved in several ways at once. The new upper bounds have a certain optimality property.
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