On the Gini mean difference (Q763700)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6019667
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    On the Gini mean difference
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6019667

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      On the Gini mean difference (English)
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      29 March 2012
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      The authors provide a proof of an inequality for the Gini mean difference: If \(X\) and \(X'\) are i.i.d. random variables with finite variance, then \(E|X-X'|\leq \frac{2}{\sqrt{3}}\sqrt{Var (X)}\), where equality holds iff the distribution is uniform on some interval.
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      Gini mean difference
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