Chernoff bound

Known as: Chernoff, Chernoff's inequality, Chernoff inequality

In probability theory, the Chernoff bound, named after Herman Chernoff but due to Herman Rubin, gives exponentially decreasing bounds on tail…

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2010

We recall the framework of a consistent quantum description of polarization of light. Accordingly, the degree of polarization of…

2009

This paper addresses the scalable optimization of sensor networks for distributed detection applications. In the general case…

2007

We explore the finite-temperature phase diagram of the anisotropic XY spin chain using the quantum Chernoff bound metric on…

2006

We study the capacity of a large clustered wireless ad hoc network in which clusters of nodes are scattered in a sea of…

2005

We consider the problem of classifying among a set of M hypothesis withN distributed noisy sensors. TheN sensors can collaborate…

2001

1994

We derive a Chernoff upper bound for the pairwise error probability in the presence of an additive white Gaussian noise and a…

1993

This paper concerns the asymptotic validity of the bootstrap method in a non-regular model. Specifically, it is shown that the…

1990

A comparison is made of two methods for the computation of the probability that the sum of a Gaussian and a nonGaussian random…

1978