Zero Means
When the mean (μ) is zero Chebyshev's inequality takes a simple form. Let σ2 be the variance. Then
With the same conditions Cantelli's inequality takes the form
Read more about this topic: Chebyshev's Inequality
Famous quotes containing the word means:
“Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)