Ask a Question

Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?

A short proof of the Dvoretzky--Kiefer--Wolfowitz--Massart inequality

A short proof of the Dvoretzky--Kiefer--Wolfowitz--Massart inequality

The Dvoretzky--Kiefer--Wolfowitz--Massart inequality gives a sub-Gaussian tail bound on the supremum norm distance between the empirical distribution function of a random sample and its population counterpart. We provide a short proof of a result that improves the existing bound in two respects. First, our one-sided bound holds without any restrictions …