The Chen-Rubin conjecture in a continuous setting

DOI10.4310/MAA.2006.V13.N1.A4MaRDI QIDQ864416zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Christian Berg, Henrik L. Pedersen

Publication date 8 February 2007

Published in Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411282

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionmediangamma distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

Abstract: We study the median in the Gamma distribution as a function of the parameter. Using methods from complex analysis we show that the derivative of the median is less than 1 and we thereby solve a conjecture of Chen and Rubin from 1986. We also study the asymptotic behaviour of the median at infinity and at zero.

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