{ "id": "math/9309210", "version": "v1", "published": "1993-09-13T00:00:00.000Z", "updated": "1993-09-13T00:00:00.000Z", "title": "Bounds on the tail probability of U-statistics and quadratic forms", "authors": [ "Victor H. de la Peña", "Stephen J. Montgomery-Smith" ], "comment": "5 pages. Abstract added in migration.", "journal": "Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 31 (1994) 223-227", "categories": [ "math.FA", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "The authors announce a general tail estimate, called a decoupling inequality, for a symmetrized sum of non-linear $k$-correlations of $n>k$ independent random variables.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1993-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "tail probability", "quadratic forms", "u-statistics", "independent random variables", "general tail estimate" ], "tags": [ "journal article", "expository article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "AMS", "journal": "Bull. Amer. Math. Soc." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "1993math......9210D" } } }