In this part of the book we delve deeply into understanding the tail of a random variable, namely the probability that the random variable exceeds some value. While we briefly touched on this topic in Section 5.9, in Chapter 18 we derive much more sophisticated tail bounds, including Chernoff bounds and Hoeffding bounds.
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