Some applications of concentration inequalities to statistics
Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Série 6, Tome 9 (2000) no. 2, pp. 245-303. 
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Massart, Pascal. Some applications of concentration inequalities to statistics. Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Série 6, Tome 9 (2000) no. 2, pp. 245-303. http://archive.numdam.org/item/AFST_2000_6_9_2_245_0/

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