Using Hoeffding's inequality, how many samples would you need in order to get an error of less than 0.05 in 90% of cases?
  • We have ε=0.05 and δ=0.1. Substituting into the Hoeffding inequality, we get n > (-ln(0.1/2)) / (2*0.05*0.05). n > 599.15. Therefore we need at least 600 samples.

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