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

Iosif Pinelis

Published 2012-04-08Version 1

A well-known longstanding conjecture on the supremum of the tails of normalized sums of independent Rademacher random variables is disproved. A related conjecture, also recently disproved, is discussed.

Comments: 6 pages
Categories: math.PR, math.ST, stat.TH
Subjects: 60E15, 60G50
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