.1 Markov's Inequality
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We will develop some inequalities which let us bound the probability of a random variable taking a value very far from its expectation. This is the most basic inequality we will use. This is useful if the only thing we know about a random variable is its expectation. It will also be useful to derive other inequalities later.
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