Strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds

Abstract

Let X be an absolutely continuous random variable from the integrated Pearson family and assume that X has finite moments of any order. Using some properties of the associated orthonormal polynomial system, we provide a class of strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds.

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