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Hypergeometric tail inequalities: ending the insanity

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arxiv 1311.5939 v1 pith:WINOG7JZ submitted 2013-11-23 math.PR stat.OT

Matthew Skala This is my paper
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The hypergeometric distribution is briefly and informally surveyed, including popular notation, symmetries, and the tail inequalities $Pr[i \ge E[i]+tn] \le e^{-2t^2n}$ and $Pr[i \le E[i]-tn] \le e^{-2t^2n}$.

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