 Lower-tail concentration for a weakly self-bounding function (source code)

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= Lower-tail concentration for a weakly self-bounding function

The entropy method gives
$$
\log\mathbb E e^{-\lambda(Z-\mathbb EZ)}
\leq\frac{\lambda^2\mathbb EZ}{2}
$$
for $\lambda\geq0$. Consequently the <Chernoff bound> yields $\mathbb P(Z-\mathbb EZ\leq-t)\leq\exp[-t^2/(2\mathbb EZ)]$.

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