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for questions involving inequalities, upper and lower bounds.

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a simple probability inequality

For independent Rademacher random variables $\epsilon_i, i=1,2, \cdots, n$, i.e. $P(\epsilon_i=-1)=P(\epsilon_i=1)=\frac{1}{2}$, do we have $$max_{0\le a_i\le b, i=1,2,\cdots,n}P(|\sum_{i=1}^n\epsil …
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Inequality involving the weak second moment

I want to ask the following probability inequality: Is it true that for any random variable $X\ge 0$, we have $$ \sup_{t>0}(t\mathbb E(X\mathbf 1_{X\ge t})) \le 2\sup_{t>0}(t^2 \mathbb P(X \ge t …
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