Upper bounds are derived for the probability that the sum S of n independent random variables exceeds its mean ES by a positive number nt. It is assumed that the range of each summand of S is bounded ...

The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 29, No. 5 (October 2019), pp. 3201-3229 (29 pages) We provide a general bound on theWasserstein distance between two arbitrary distributions of sequences of ...