Chernoff Bounds
If the random variables may also be assumed to be independent, it is possible to obtain sharper bounds. Let δ > 0. Then
With this inequality it can be shown that
where μ is the mean of the distribution. Further discussion may be found in the article on Chernoff bounds
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