Distribution functions and log-concavity

DOI10.1080/03610929308831156zbMath0787.62015OpenAlexW2075005281MaRDI QIDQ4275835

Helmut Finner, Markus Roters

Publication date: 25 May 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929308831156

zbMATH Keywords

total positivityconvolution theoremprobability inequalitylog-convexPólya frequency functionreproductive propertyLebesgue densityPrekopa's theoremone-dimensional cumulative distribution functionsconvex statisticlog-concavity resultsreview of results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Convexity of real functions in one variable, generalizations (26A51) Sufficiency and information (62B99)

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