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Minor Improvement in Poisson tail bound #1

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@uddaloksarkar

Hi Clément,

It seems that the bound of the Poisson tail inequality can be further improved. In the current version of this note, it is shown that $\Pr(|x - \lambda| \geq x) \leq \exp\left(-\frac{x^2}{2(\lambda + x)}\right)$. However, we propose a slightly improved bound: $\Pr(|x - \lambda| \geq x) \leq \exp\left(-\frac{x^2}{2\lambda + x}\right)$. Proof of this improved bound is provided in Appendix B here.

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