The missing factor in Hoeffding's inequalities
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 31 (1995) no. 4, pp. 689-702. 
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Talagrand, Michel. The missing factor in Hoeffding's inequalities. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 31 (1995) no. 4, pp. 689-702. http://archive.numdam.org/item/AIHPB_1995__31_4_689_0/

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