Probability inequalities for continuous unimodal random variables with finite support

DOI10.1080/03610928808829817MaRDI QIDQ3473002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dean M. Young, Virgil R. Marco, John W. jun. Seaman, Danny W. Turner

Publication date 1988

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928808829817

zbMATH Keywords

Bernstein inequalitiesvariance boundsGauss-type probability inequalityunimodal random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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