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          |  | Volume 3, Issue 1, Article 7 |  |   
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | L'Hospital Type Rules for Monotonicity: Applications to Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables
 
 
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          |  |  | Authors: | Iosif Pinelis, |  |   
          |  |  | Keywords: | L'Hospital's Rule, Monotonicity, Probability inequalities, Sums of independent random variables, Student's statistic |  |   
          |  |  | Date Received: | 29/01/01 |  |   
          |  |  | Date Accepted: | 06/09/01 |  |   
          |  |  | Subject Codes: | 26A48,26D10,60E15,26D07,62H15,62F04,62F3 |  |   
          |  |  | Editors: | Charles E. M. Pearce, |  |   
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          |  |  | Abstract: |  This paper continues a series of results begun by a l'Hospital type rule for monotonicity, which is used here to obtain refinements of the Eaton-Pinelis inequalities for sums of bounded independent random variables. 
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