Timeline for Expectation of RVs with Poisson-type decay
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| Nov 4, 2010 at 7:02 | comment | added | Ori Gurel-Gurevich | Thanks, but I didn't understand: does this mean that they have a mistake? or could the argument be carried our with $\log d$ instead? | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 0:08 | comment | added | jat | L&T prove a Rosenthal-type moment bound for sums of independent random variables in a Banach space (Thm. 6.20). The final step in the proof involves integration of $\exp(-u\log(u/K))$, which leads to Poisson-type growth of the constant. | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 1:51 | comment | added | Ori Gurel-Gurevich | No problem. Just curios: how was this used in Ledoux & Talagrand? | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 19:15 | comment | added | jat | @Ori. Thanks; that might explain why I couldn't establish the bound. (It is true without the $\log \log d$ factor, but I expected the Poisson decay to give a little bit extra.) | |
| Oct 24, 2010 at 19:12 | vote | accept | jat | ||
| Oct 23, 2010 at 4:55 | history | answered | Ori Gurel-Gurevich | CC BY-SA 2.5 |