Inequalities for Bin Packing—II

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.18.3.685

Consider the minimum number Bn of unit size bins needed to pack items X1, …, Xn that are independently distributed according to a given distribution μ concentrated on [0, 1]. We establish a sharp inequality for the deviation of Bn from its expectation.

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