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Chernoff bound

exponentially decreasing bounds on tail distributions of sums of independent random variables
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Chernoff bound

Summary

Chernoff bound is an upper bound[1]. It draws 410 Wikipedia views per month (upper_bound category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Chernoff bound's instance of is recorded as upper bound[3].
  • Chernoff bound's instance of is recorded as theorem[4].
  • Chernoff bound's instance of is recorded as inequality[5].
  • Herman Chernoff is named after Chernoff bound[6].
  • Chernoff bound's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/037gp9[7].
  • Chernoff bound's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[8].
  • Chernoff bound's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 14539891[9].
  • Chernoff bound's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C14539891[10].
  • Chernoff bound's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/chernoff-bound[11].
  • Chernoff bound's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/chernoff-bound[12].

Why It Matters

Chernoff bound draws 410 Wikipedia views per month (upper_bound category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Chernoff bound. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/chernoff-bound
MLA “Chernoff bound.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/chernoff-bound.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_chernoff-bound_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Chernoff bound}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/chernoff-bound}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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