Definition
Let X1, ..., Xn be independent Bernoulli random variables, each having probability p > 1/2. Then the probability of simultaneous occurrence of more than n/2 of the events has an exact value S, where
The Chernoff bound shows that S has the following lower bound:
This result admits various generalizations as outlined below. One can encounter many flavours of Chernoff bounds: the original additive form (which gives a bound on the absolute error) or the more practical multiplicative form (which bounds the error relative to the mean).
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