On the supremum of the tails of normalized sums of independent Rademacher random variables

Authors

Iosif Pinelis, Michigan Technological University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2015

Abstract

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. A well-known longstanding conjecture on the supremum of the tails of normalized sums of independent Rademacher random variables is disproved. A special case of this conjecture was recently disproved by A. Zhubr.

Publication Title

Statistics and Probability Letters

Recommended Citation

Pinelis, I. (2015). On the supremum of the tails of normalized sums of independent Rademacher random variables. Statistics and Probability Letters, 99, 131-134. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2015.01.010
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