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EXACT LOWER BOUND ON AN ‘EXACTLY ONE’ PROBABILITY

Part of: Distribution theory - Probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2021

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IOSIF PINELIS*
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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan49931, USA
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e-mail: ipinelis@mtu.edu
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Abstract

We obtain the exact lower bound on the probability of the occurrence of exactly one of n random events each of probability p.

Keywords

exact lower boundindependencepairwise independenceprobability inequalities

MSC classification

Primary: 60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 2 , October 2021 , pp. 330 - 336
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© 2021 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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