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L'Hospital Type Rules for Monotonicity: Applications to Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables  
 
  Authors: Iosif Pinelis,  
  Keywords: L'Hospital's Rule, Monotonicity, Probability inequalities, Sums of independent random variables, Student's statistic  
  Date Received: 29/01/01  
  Date Accepted: 06/09/01  
  Subject Codes:

26A48,26D10,60E15,26D07,62H15,62F04,62F3

 
  Editors: Charles E. M. Pearce,  
 
  Abstract:

This paper continues a series of results begun by a l'Hospital type rule for monotonicity, which is used here to obtain refinements of the Eaton-Pinelis inequalities for sums of bounded independent random variables. ;



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