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Old 07-31-2012, 11:36 PM
raghu raghu is offline
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Default Question on union bound
I did not grasp the reasoning behind the union bound for Hoffding's inequality.
If we have a bound for the error for a single hypothesis and we are able to calculate this, shouldnt this be the bound for any hypothesis?
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