%0 Journal Article
%T Strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds
%A G. Afendras
%A N. Papadatos
%J Statistics
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%R 10.3150/12-BEJ484
%X Let $X$ be an absolutely continuous random variable from the integrated Pearson family and assume that $X$ has finite moments of any order. Using some properties of the associated orthonormal polynomial system, we provide a class of strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1754v4