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Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities

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Let XX be a random variable on a probability space (Ω,F,P)(\Omega,\mathcal{F},P) and let a>0a>0.

Markov's inequality. If X0X\ge 0 pointwise, then

P(Xa)  E[X]a,P(X\ge a)\ \le\ \frac{\mathbb{E}[X]}{a},

with the expectation in [0,][0,\infty] (the inequality being trivial when the right side is infinite).

Chebyshev's inequality. If XX and X2X^{2} have finite expectation, then

P(XE[X]a)  Var(X)a2,P\bigl(|X-\mathbb{E}[X]|\ge a\bigr)\ \le\ \frac{\operatorname{Var}(X)}{a^{2}},

with the variance as defined there.

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