Preservation of log-concavity on summation

DOI10.1051/ps:2006008zbMath1185.60016arXivmath/0502548WikidataQ60522097 ScholiaQ60522097MaRDI QIDQ5429575

Christina Goldschmidt, Oliver Johnson

Publication date: 30 November 2007

Published in: ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502548

zbMATH Keywords

convolution; Stirling numbers; Eulerian numbers; log-concavity; dependent random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

60C05: Combinatorial probability

11B75: Other combinatorial number theory

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