A note on a variance bound for the multinomial and the negative multinomial distribution

Giorgos Afendras and Vassilis Papathanasiou

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2014, vol. 61, issue 3, 179-183

Abstract: We prove a Chernoff‐type upper variance bound for the multinomial and the negative multinomial distribution. An application is also given.Copyright © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 179–183, 2014

Date: 2014
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