Fréchet optimal bounds on the probability of a union with supplementary information

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2007.02.019MaRDI QIDQ2474522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fred M. Hoppe, Mikhail Nediak

Publication date 6 March 2008

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2007.02.019

zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingprobability boundBoole's inequalitysupplementary informationdegree oneFréchet optimal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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