A study on the Weibull and Pareto distributions motivated by Chv\'{a}tal's theorem

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Authors Cheng Li, Ze-Chun Hu, Qianqian Zhou

Publication date 3 May 2023

Abstract: Let $B(n,p)$ denote a binomial random variable with parameters $n$ and $p$. Chv'{a}tal's theorem says that for any fixed $ngeq2$, as $m$ ranges over $0,ldots,n$, the probability $q_m:=P(B(n,m/n)leqm)$ is the smallest when $m$ is closest to $frac2n3$. Motivated by this theorem, we consider the minimum value problem on the probability that a random variable is at most its expectation, when its distribution is the Weibull distribution or the Pareto distribution in this note.

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