Log-concavity and strong log-concavity: a review

DOI10.1214/14-SS107zbMath1360.62055arXiv1404.5886OpenAlexW2963763760WikidataQ38822741 ScholiaQ38822741MaRDI QIDQ485901

Publication date: 14 January 2015

Published in: Statistics Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5886

zbMATH Keywords

monotone inequalities convolution convex preservation log-concave concave distributional limits log-Sobolev inequalities strongly log-concave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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