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A measure of variability based on the harmonic mean, and its use in approximations
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    A measure of variability based on the harmonic mean, and its use in approximations (English)
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    Given a random variable X and a function g, crude approximations to the mean and variance of g(X) may be obtained by Taylor series arguments. The variance of X, \(\sigma^ 2\), is a key quantity in approximating the bias and variance of g(X). For X positive and g rapidly decreasing, the bias and variance of g(X) should be relatively insensitive to the tail behavior of X, and \(\sigma^ 2\) should therefore not play an important role. In practice, when \(\sigma^ 2\) is very large the approximations for rapidly decreasing functions are often poor. The author assumes that X is positive with finite \(EX^{-1}\) and EX, and g is completely monotone with \(g(0)<\infty\). He then considers \(c^ 2=1- (EX EX^{-1})^{-1}\) as a measure of variability and shows that \(0\leq [Eg(X)-g(EX)]/g(0)\leq c^ 2\) and \(Var[g(X)]/g(0)\leq c^ 2\).
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    harmonic mean
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    approximations
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    variance
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    Taylor series
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    bias
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    measure of variability
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