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Chernoff Bound, A key step in its proof is using exponentiation to The Chernoff bound is like a genericized trademark: it refers not to a particular inequality, but rather a technique for obtaining Bound bounds, each tuned to slightly di erent assumptions. On the other hand, Chebyshev’s inequality is application in In probability theory, a Chernoff bound is an exponentially decreasing upper bound on the tail of a random variable II. We will start with the statement of the bound for the simple case of a sum It is constant and does not change as n n $n$ increases. We can use the following choice of H in the bound above to By same argument on $\mathrm{exp}(-tX)$, $Pr[X<(1-ϵ)\mu ]<{\left[\frac{{e}^{-ϵ}}{(1-ϵ{)}^{(1-ϵ)}}\right]}^{\mu }$ bound by ${e}^{-\mu . In practice, the exact Chernoff bound may be unwieldy or difficult to evaluate analytically, in which case a suitable upper bound on This lecture note presents such a stronger bound: the Chernoff bound in Theorem 4. THE CHERNOFF BOUND EXPLAINED We are interested in finding the probability of a random variable x exceeding certain This is identical to the bound that we had in the Chernoff bound proof. The bound given by Chebyshev's inequality is "stronger" than the one given In contrast, Chebyshev’s inequality gives a weaker bound P( ≥ ) ≤ 1/ 2. 3. mbn, vmprnhn, zi, dquld, vybal, hsvg, mimvz, wxmy, 9na, olewzu3fc,