On the monotonicity of tail probabilities

DOI10.37190/0208-4147.00050MaRDI QIDQ5043620zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Symeon Papavassiliou, Christos Pelekis, Robbert Fokkink

Publication date 6 October 2022

Published in Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.37190/0208-4147.00050

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionsums of independent random variables(negative) binomial distributionSimmons' inequalitytail comparisons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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