Sharp bounds for the probability of the union of events under unimodality condition

zbMATH Open1145.90424MaRDI QIDQ5451101FDOQ5451101

Authors: András Prékopa, Munevver Mine Subasi, Ersoy Subasi 

Publication date: 18 March 2008

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zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingreliabilitydiscrete unimodalitybounding probabilitiesBinomial moment problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)

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