An inequality for uniform deviations of sample averages from their means

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-62

  Bartlett, Peter ^a   Lugosi, Gábor ^b  

^a Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical risk minimization; Uniform laws of large numbers; Vapnik Chervonenkis inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012500744     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00291-0     Document Type: Article

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