Let X be a random variable with having a chi-squared distribution with n degrees of freedom and let y be some real number at most n. Is it known how P (X < y) behaves at least in some reasonable range of y? For instance, could one determine exactly the order of the latter probability when y=cn (for some $0\lt c \lt 1$) when n becomes large?
In the end, I am interested in the upper bound for the latter probability, but I am not sure if the usual Chernoff bound gives the correct magnitude.