A contribution to the theory of Chernoff bounds
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Vol. 39 (1) , 249-254
- https://doi.org/10.1109/18.179368
Abstract
Some extensions that allow new estimating and bounding techniques for certain sequences of random variables controlled by a large deviation principle are given. These results can be thought of as generalizations and extensions of the Chernoff bound used in communications theoryKeywords
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