On the probability that a binomial variable is at most its expectation

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2020.109020zbMath1457.60015arXiv2009.13781OpenAlexW3110879592MaRDI QIDQ2658001

Svante Janson

Publication date: 18 March 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13781

zbMATH Keywords

medianEdgeworth expansionsbinomial probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

Related Items (4)

A study on the Poisson, geometric and Pascal distributions motivated by Chvátal's conjecture ⋮ Strictly unimodality of the probability that the binomial distribution is more than its expectation ⋮ On the moment absolute deviation of order statistics from uniform distribution ⋮ On the Chvátal-Janson conjecture

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