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Theory and applications of probability and stochastic processes: e.g. central limit theorems, large deviations, stochastic differential equations, models from statistical mechanics, queuing theory.

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Lower bound for the probability of binomial variable to be less than her expectation

Let $X$ a binomial variable of parameter $(N,p)$, with $0<p<0.5$ I would like to lower bound $\mathbb{P}\left(X <Np \right)$ by a constant ($\frac{1}{5}$ seems true and is enough for me). Thank you b …
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Expected size of the smallest preimage set

Let $f$ a function from $\{0, 1 \}^{2n}$ to $\{0, 1 \}^{n}$ uniformly picked at random. I would like to have an estimation of the expected size of the smallest premiage set of $f$, more formally $\mat …
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