Multivariate Chebyshev Inequality With Estimated Mean and Variance

Citation
Bartolomeo Stellato et al., Multivariate Chebyshev Inequality With Estimated Mean and Variance, American statistician , 71(2), 2017, pp. 123-127
Journal title
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
71
Issue
2
Year of publication
2017
Pages
123 - 127
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
A variant of the well-known Chebyshev inequality for scalar random variables can be formulated in the case where the mean and variance are estimated from samples. In this article, we present a generalization of this result to multiple dimensions where the only requirement is that the samples are independent and identically distributed. Furthermore, we show that as the number of samples tends to infinity our inequality converges to the theoretical multi-dimensional Chebyshev bound.