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Bennett's inequality, an upper bound on the probability that the sum of independent random variables deviates from its expected value by more than any specified amount; Bhatia–Davis inequality, an upper bound on the variance of any bounded probability distribution; Bernstein inequalities (probability theory) Boole's inequality; Borell–TIS ...
Such articles are marked here by a code of the form (X:Y), which refers to number of random variables involved and the type of the distribution. For example (2:DC) indicates a distribution with two random variables, discrete or continuous. Other codes are just abbreviations for topics. The list of codes can be found in the table of contents.
Doob's inequality for discrete-time martingales implies Kolmogorov's inequality: if X 1, X 2, ... is a sequence of real-valued independent random variables, each with mean zero, it is clear that
An unbiased random walk, in any number of dimensions, is an example of a martingale. For example, consider a 1-dimensional random walk where at each time step a move to the right or left is equally likely. A gambler's fortune (capital) is a martingale if all the betting games which the gambler plays are fair.
In mathematics — specifically, in stochastic analysis — the infinitesimal generator of a Feller process (i.e. a continuous-time Markov process satisfying certain regularity conditions) is a Fourier multiplier operator [1] that encodes a great deal of information about the process.
Jensen's inequality provides a simple lower bound on the moment-generating function: (), where is the mean of X. The moment-generating function can be used in conjunction with Markov's inequality to bound the upper tail of a real random variable X.
If more than one random variable is defined in a random experiment, it is important to distinguish between the joint probability distribution of X and Y and the probability distribution of each variable individually. The individual probability distribution of a random variable is referred to as its marginal probability distribution.
Compound Poisson distribution; ... Convolution random number generator; ... An inequality on location and scale parameters ...