Download or read book Concentration Inequalities written by Stéphane Boucheron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the interplay between the probabilistic structure (independence) and a variety of tools ranging from functional inequalities to transportation arguments to information theory. Applications to the study of empirical processes, random projections, random matrix theory, and threshold phenomena are also presented.