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10 October 2023

  • curprev 10:5310:53, 10 October 2023Etone talk contribs 41,013 bytes +41,013 Created page with "=Chernoff Bound= Suppose that we have a fair coin. If we toss it once, then the outcome is completely unpredictable. But if we toss it, say for 1000 times, then the number of HEADs is very likely to be around 500. This phenomenon, as illustrated in the following figure, is called the '''concentration''' of measure. The Chernoff bound is an inequality that characterizes the concentration phenomenon for the sum of independent trials. File:Coinflip.png|border|450px|cent..."