Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
2009-08-25
Mathematics
Probability
7 pages
Scientific paper
We give a detailed proof, in the identically distributed case, of a
conjecture of Feige about the maximum probability that the sum of n independent
non-negative integer valued random variables, each of mean 1, exceeds n. The
general case is reduced to two-point distributions.
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